the challenge of middle school

my dear advisee

middle school is a challenging time:

a time of great developmental upheavals,

as the child is called by the adult within

to metamorphose: physically, emotionally, metaphysically,

to rise up, to look around,

a time to allow people, ideas, change,

to cascade upon one’s self,

a self already tuned to the universe,

and then the universe changes,

my advisee, I promise

to see you,

to know you,

to help you,

as best I can,

as you give birth

to the best you

that can find the ways to reveal itself,

and then to change the world

in ways the world needs to change.

by Henry H. Walker

September 18, ’18,

Yom Kippur