Dedication
This portfolio is, without a doubt, dedicated to the good folks of Panola County, Mississippi--from teachers and principals to parents and, most importantly, students.
I've been welcomed into a tight-knit community I came into as an outsider. I've been given a respect and love I could've never imagined from people who had no reason to give me anything.
I have, in effect, found a second home--a place I love to be, with people I love to be around, at a job I love to do.
As Marilynne Robinson says:
“People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.”
- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
I've been welcomed into a tight-knit community I came into as an outsider. I've been given a respect and love I could've never imagined from people who had no reason to give me anything.
I have, in effect, found a second home--a place I love to be, with people I love to be around, at a job I love to do.
As Marilynne Robinson says:
“People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.”
- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead