it is not so much because I am no longer in the classroom.
The words for my sig appear on the back of the t-shirt I am wearing right now, one I got for volunteering for the Missions of Mercy of the Virginia Dental Association Foundation, in Wise Virginia. It has been on the back of the t-shirt for several years, and it is something that now affects my entire life, and would were I again to be in a classroom.
Here are those words:
"We didn't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts." - Pema Chodron
Peace.