No, thank YOU!

No, thank YOU!, originally uploaded by ujima.

Sunday
(Finally got time to check Fri./Sat.'s mail.)

I taught children in Grades 4-6 for 37 years in the same school.
(Been retired for 9 years.) It's so great when they snail mail and
now email me! One ex-student is a jazz drummer who tours the
world and sends me postcards as I sent postcards to my students
when I went traveling. Some are teachers and write for advice. (I
don't talk on the phone.) There are lawyers, police and fire persons,
incarcerated ones, retail workers----a variety of accomplishments.

The young man pictured just graduated from Temple University and
is going on to grad school as is his twin brother. And their Mom, who
worked as an aide at our school, taught them right. The kids in
my family and my sisters never send a thank you for al the things and
$$ I send them. And *they* were taught right, but it wore off 8>(