I believe our Save the Music campaign at the school board's work session tonight was a success. We won't know for sure until next week when they vote, but the dozen or so or us who spoke made a very big impact. As I was sitting near the back listening to others and waiting for my turn, I felt a very strong sense of community. We were all there for the betterment of our educational system regardless of if we were fighting to save music or mathematics or foreign language.
My community of 7000 isn't my hometown, but I still feel committed to it much the same way my mom was committed to the only town she ever lived in. I guess that's not exactly true. I think the family she grew up w/ briefly lived in a nearby town for awhile, but that was before she started school. There's something to be said for being in the same community your entire life to weather the crises and rejoice in the triumphs. It takes an enormous amount of strength to grow where you're planted. It takes courage to stay and cut-out a life that swaps youth for responsibility. Sometimes I think I took the easy way out by moving away.
Mom always went into community projects w/ passion and fervor. That woman could organize cancer drives and blood drives and city name signs for each end of town, complete w/ lights that she helped install. All that, and still cook and clean and sew and manage the household account. Right about now I'm thinking of the old commercial, don't even remember the product, but the jingle was, "She can bring home the bacon. Fry it up in a pan. And never, never let you forget you're a man. 'Cause she's a woman." Mom was a woman's woman..........Super Woman!
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