On Saturday
night, our community will gather for BPC’s annual spring benefit, and as per
usual the amount of work and effort that has gone into it has been inspiring.
It is pretty clear that we are teed up for an incredibly successful event that
will allow our teachers to receive grant funding for all sorts of amazing ideas
and plans for the future of the Berwick program. I also know that we are going
to have some fun on Saturday night coming together and enjoying each other’s
company during such incredibly busy times.
I am under
strict orders not to reveal too much about the video we have created to unveil
our Fund A Need project to improve parking this year. But I just need to say
that I had a chance to watch it a few days ago and simply laughed out loud. I
mean by myself, sitting in front of my computer screen, laughing out loud.
Whatever ultimately comes of the effort in terms of fundraising, it was a
moment of seeing once again how much our parents and employees care. It was
also a moment to see how people at Berwick generally don’t take themselves too
seriously and know how to laugh. I actually think this is no small thing in
education nowadays, and I trust that this spirit is transferred down to Berwick
students as well.
Humor is
arguably the most effective life-coping skill we have – as kids and as adults.
Being able to notice and appreciate humor offers psychological perspective and
physiological healing. Usually it is only about two or three times a year when
I have one of those moments with a friend when I literally can’t breathe on
account of laughing so hard. They are moments when I begin to weep, and when my
friends see me crying in laughter, they only laugh harder themselves. It is
like an unstoppable tornado of joy when it happens like that – a twister of
humor that arrives usually at the most unexpected of moments and almost always
with the people we care about most.
So while I
am obviously excited for a successful spring benefit tomorrow, I am even more
excited about the laughter and humor that our community loves to display along
the way. Continuing to pump this spirit of laughing (both at ourselves and with
each other) to our children will be more important that any dollar goal we
might achieve. Looking forward to seeing you Saturday….come for the video if
nothing else.
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