Ten.One Thousand, Six Hundred & Eighty-Nine

1. Tired. Yes.

2. I think I’ve already had too much coffee.

3. Monday morning meeting bliss.

4. I tell her that even with how stressful the mornings can be, I am grateful that I get to take my kids to school every day.

5. She starts talking and I go from confusion to excitement to relief. I take the phone downstairs so he can listen to what she is saying. “There is a meeting today, and if you can come, that would be great.”

6. I walk by the building and see a group of Black people which is not something I have ever seen in this place and I am curious.

7. Photoshoot on the patio. The smell of scallops. The colors of the baby pickled radishes and pea shoots.

8. It wasn’t just three more parents. From the corner of my eye, I see people walking in through the doors, sitting down in chairs.

9. There is one voice who says he doesn’t think it’s the school’s responsibility to teach anything but academics. But I don’t think that’s what the rest of in this room believe.

10. Change is coming.

11. Deep, deep gratitude.