Showing Up

In the past four weeks or so, I’ve gone to:

 

• An elementary school concert led by a former Orff student.

• A local Orff chapter workshop taught by a teacher I knew.

• A high school concert featuring alums from my school. (SFS)

• A dance concert featuring another alum.

• A 50^th  Anniversary of a modern dance group my sister danced in.

• A neighborhood sing.

• Two SFS Spring Concerts my former colleagues put on.

• An SFS camping trip my daughter led.

• A luncheon for SFS alums graduating from high school.

 

All of this a pleasure and not a duty, but also a commitment to keep the community present and ongoing, to support former teachers and students, to simply show up. Amongst possible epitaphs on the gravestone I’ll probably never have, this is an option:

 

“He showed up.”