Today everything was slow, the traffic, the service at lunch, the computer, the mail. What I wanted accomplished for the day was slowed down by a much needed visit to Abby's classroom. There I was reminded how "impatience" looked like. Children are always eager to start soon and finish soon. It does not matter if the job was well done or not. This picture reminded me of how my students were so impatient to capture our class pet "runaway gerbil". It took several tries and several days to find him. On it's third and last getaway one morning I followed a track of pieces and bits of paper to where it laid unconscious and without life. Had this gerbil waited, it would have found a better home since we were planning on returning it to the mother of the student who donated it to us. I don't know the correlation of being very eager and being impatient, but it appears that in this hurried world where things are changing so rapidly the distinction between both is blurry. I do still believe that patience is a virtue that must be nurtured and nurturing is not always easy.
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