Have You Eaten?

At our school, the elementary classrooms are on the lowest floors, then middle school in the middle, and finally high school at the top. This means when I am on my way downstairs, I often must part a flood of toddlers to get to the cafeteria or the exit, depending on where I am going. Yesterday, as I was leaving to go home, I came across a young girl who was going up the stairs. She was maybe in third grade, and she was climbing the stairs with a determined look on her face. She ignored me, but as she passed, she was muttering, “I can’t stand it. I can’t stand it anymore!” I assume she was talking about the uncertainty hanging in the air, the brief period between 2–3pm where every day everyone loiters around waiting to hear how many new cases have been reported, the changing guidelines and rules and expectations and glimpses into the future. Maybe she sensed how all the teachers and staff were anxious about words from friends and family, about the constant feeling that another shoe is about to drop.   <a href="https://medium.com/@GrahamMOliver/have-you-eaten-59e891fedc1a">Click Here</a>