From the Mouth of a Babe

Dedicated to the memory of Sean Bell and Michael Donald...Respect... ...VOTE...Fight, Fight the Power, You've GOTTA Fight the Powers That Be! (Thanks, Isley Brothers and Public Enemy)

Today is Rachel's birthday. I searched high and low in the immediate neighborhood of my school, to try to get an Entemann's cake for her. No luck, lots of fast walking to get to all of those stores and get back on time, but still... no cake. The 99 Cent store had Fruit Cake, probably left over from Christmas, so I took a pass. Finally on the way back, a half-block from my original stating point, I wound up in Dunkin Donuts with the intention of getting donut holes. The next thing I knew, I was asking what flavor was the pink ice cream cake, no, not that one, the one with the flowers? I thought I was doing something nice for a little girl. How very wrong I was. When the class had finished lunch, I walked over to Rachel with the cake and lit candles. She saw her name on the cake and was very happy. The class sang and she made her wish and blew out her candles. She looked at me and said, "This is the best day of my life! This is the best cake I ever had!" That little girl was not the one who had the best day of her life...it was me. To see such pure joy in the eyes of a little girl who's just celebrated turning 6,is the best feeling in the world. Thank you, Rachel.