Through the Eyes of an Educator: Seeking Joy

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“We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.” - Maya Angelou 

Last week, I took a walk on a different beachside boardwalk. Shy of sunset, wiggling past tail-wagging puppies, palette-clad artists, and wave-riding surfers, there he was. A bubble guy, joyfully swinging two long poles attached to a sudsy string, creating the most glorious soapy prisms I’d ever seen. With a quick dip of the string and a wave of...