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On Thursday I spoke at our town\u2019s local chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, an organization for professional women. Several of the women were former teaching colleagues of mine an during the question and answer time, one of them asked me if I missed teaching.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to offend anyone by saying \u201cNo!\u201d with too much enthusiasm and conviction. So I paused to think before speaking, a practice I should use more often, and something came to mind. \u201cI miss my teaching friends and the relationships we forged together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several women nodded in agreement and smiled. As they did, my thoughts raced back to San Diego and my stay in the guest house on the mountain top. One morning as I did laps around the exterior of the mansion and back and forth on the section of driveway which was not more than a 5% grade, a little girl popped out the back door and asked, \u201cWhy do you keep walking by here?\u201d<\/p>\n

I stopped to explain. \u201cI like to walk, and there aren\u2019t many places to walk on top of a mountain. So I have to go in circles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh.\u201d She thought for a minute. \u201cI\u2019ll come with you.\u201d And she did, though her feet were bare, her wavy brown hair was a beehive bed head, and her pajamas were an old t-shirt of her grandpa\u2019s that nearly dragged on the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow old are you?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

The words tumbled out and her soft brown eyes sparkled. \u201cI\u2019m just passed four. I\u2019ve only been five for a few weeks. My birthday was September 22. That\u2019s two twos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you have a party?\u201d<\/p>\n

Abruptly, she stopped walking and put her hands on her hips. \u201cYes, I did. And I invited you, but you didn\u2019t come.\u201d<\/p>\n

I defended myself. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t know you then.\u201d<\/p>\n

She shook her head. \u201cI invited you. I know I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

No matter how many different ways I phrased it, she wouldn\u2019t buy it. Finally, I had to promise to come next year if she invited me, even though it would take a drive in the car and two plane rides to get from my house to hers.<\/p>\n

And I realized, as I spoke at Delta Kappa Gamma on Thursday night, that is what I miss about teaching: life at kid\u2019s level where for a brief moment, I could make a difference and become different by bending down and seeing things with the eyes of a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s one other thing I miss,\u201d I told them. \u201cLife at kid level.\u201d<\/p>\n

They knew exactly what I meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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