I was working with a new student yesterday and we (the assembled adults) were trying to figure out how to get him out of his wheelchair. In case you have never had the experience, each wheelchair is unique in its lever and its belts and whozawhatisits and thingadings. I was working on a lever, trying to find the ever so secret button to release it, when my eyes met the student's eyes and he started giggling. And then we all started giggling.
Then giggling turned to laughing and laughing turned into more laughing.
I can't even imagine what was going through his head. I know I would have been thinking:
"These are the people in charge??"
"Why does the short one keep talking? She should be concentrating on the chair!"
Etc.
Etc.
My heart was filled in that moment of laughter and I was so grateful, so very grateful to that student for sharing that moment with us and for his simple, yet wise reminder that sometimes in life, many times actually,
you just gotta laugh.
Grace and kindness in an awkward situation-this kid truly is a miracle. Luckie me, I get to see him everyday.
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