I really like Alicia’s description of the first day of school:
I looked over the balcony, down at
the kids, thinking that those were the students I would get to know
over the next nine months. Months from now I will look down and know
who they were, but for a few moments they were just a mass of khakis
and polos, tucked in. They looked sharp. They were potential.
Potential is what we’ve all got a lot of right now; it’s just nice to be reminded sometimes.