âYonder were the mountains: The sunlight revealed their tiny heads and wide shoulders, craggy and purple, with small black trees, delicate as eyelashes, on their slopes.â â Paul Theroux
It never ceases to amaze me the ways in which life can manage to not only survive, but thrive.
As an educator, I have worked with countless students, including those who come from the most anemic backgrounds â impoverished in experiences, impoverished in love and emotional support, or impoverished financially. Miraculously, many of those disadvantaged students still manage to not only survive their hardscrabble circumstances, but also find enough sustenance outside of their own rocky home life for growth.