Dear Humans,

Yesterday we did that yarn toss greeting where someone holds the end of the yarn and tosses the skein to the next person and on and on around the circle. And you end up with a web that connects everyone–a nice visual metaphor for a classroom community.

And then we tried to undo it. And we thought it’d end up all neat and tidy back on the skein. But, of course, it got tangled on the very first toss. And any attempts to untangle it just made it worse.

Because that’s what happens when we get into one another’s lives–as classmates, friends, partners, colleagues–our strings get knotted. Your string will tangle up with countless others in your life, but each of those knots matters.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt