Sunshine and Cloud

Sunshines: 

A usually very outrageously loud student stood quiet for 20 minutes for just one edemame.
-the joy of the little things in life

A student wanted to clarify with me this morning. He had heard another CY member calling him "Sarah's kid". I said, "Yes, that's right". I see these students as mine. If you hurt any of them, I will go all Mama Bear on you.
-the joy of how quickly us humans can form incredible bonds/how much I absolutely love my kids

I made 500+ copies today...
-the joy of being able to fully take advantage of all resources at your disposal to help others

A lot of my students have incredibly dismal grades on their soon to be progress reports because of lots of missing assignments, I photocopied all 50-60 of my students missing assignments and made them little packets of all work needed to be turned in. By the end of the day, three of them were completely caught up.
-the joy of hard work on several ends, a hard working sandwich 

We had a Social Justice meeting today with about 25 CY members.
-the joy of discussions that are banned from the dinner table, but are much enjoyed by individuals out to change the world

My TL got into college!
-the joy of securing a future

Clouds: 
Some students misbehaved in one of our spaces, causing us to lose the space for future tutoring. 
-the sadness of a taken away opportunity
-the joy of being able to have the opportunity to be more creative in the future with our spaces 

Thinking of the future for our children, how many of them will become statistics, this one with 10 kids, this one in jail, this one lost to the street cracks, this one...
-the sadness of a harsh reality
-the joy of having the power to change even just one
-the sadness that I have more than one I need to help
-the joy of never being bored at work and loving my job and believing the best for all of my kids, if they believe in themselves even half as much as I do, they'll all be fine

Hero of the day:
All those who have faced circumstances that seemed impossible and managed to overcome overwhelming obstacles to create a brighter future.