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One Good Thing

One Good Thing

Revisiting my elementary school fills my heart

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Some weeks seem too terrible to locate good things, and yet my brief here is to do just that.

I hold out hope

that holding out hope

will hold me in hope.

[And so today’s One Good Thing, set in motion last week, takes place in an elementary school — a place which more or less symbolizes the dreams we have for our children: that they be learning, loved — an…

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