If Today Were The Day You Had To Stop Teaching...

Too painful a thought.

I can't write this.

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Term has started and I rise each day with the excitement and expectation that teaching brings to my life. Students have returned to campus and it is once again alive, revived from its summer emptiness.

I am already in love with my classes, barely a week into the term. To my great delight, I have in each of them bright, engaged, committed minds who seek to challenge me and each other in the intellectual fencing match that can have no loser.

It is exhilarating to be in the same room with these students, caught up in the vibrant energy stream of their youthful exhuberance, of their existential certainty.

I know I will learn a lot from them and that makes me smile. I can't wait for the little pearls of wisdom my students always leave with me!