Marry someone who says:
- I love you
- I’m proud of you
- yes we can go take the ferry
- no taking three round trips on the ferry isn’t too much
- yes we can take the ferry again
- no I don’t mind ruining my good hair day with sea spray
- yes I’ll buy you pretzel from the galley
when Virginia Woolf said, “Autumn is my season, dear; it is, after all, the season of the soul” and when F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall” and when Anne Shirley said, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
Students don’t need chromebooks and AI tutors, they need Shakespeare and Jane Austen and the Greek myths, they need the Arthurian Legends and the Arabian Nights, they need constant exposure to nature, fairytales, folklore, poetry and beauty.
May your meetings be short, your coffee plentiful, and your problem-solving skills on par with a bear. For example, bears are resourceful creatures and can adapt to changing circumstances in their environment.