Little Children

I just got back from watching the end of the year programs put on by the children of our Weekday Nursery School and Kindergarten. They were wonderful! And as I watched those precious children singing about Mommy and Daddy in a room filled with Mommies and Daddies, not to mention Grandma’s and Grandpa’s, I couldn’t help but remember that exactly one week before, I was watching the Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen. Evan Hansen is a 17 year old boy who is isolated and filled with self-doubt. As the backstory goes, his parents divorced when he was 7, his father moving away and starting a new family. Evan grew up being largely ignored by his father. And as the story unfolds onstage, you can’t help but wonder how that experience impacted him. And as I stood here at Central today, I couldn’t help but be struck by how precious these children are, entrusted to our care and worth everything that we can muster to support, to nurture, to see and to hear.