Nov

24

The principal of my children's former Montessori school wrote this in the school newsletter for Thanksgiving. A good Thanksgiving tale as only Mary Z. can tell:

Dear Montessori Parents,

Earlier this week I wrote a few words about the Deliciousness Factor, a taste so good, so compelling and infusive, it cannot be contained. It's Umami, the quality of delicious that goes on at The Montessori School every day. Today at Gathering, a group of children presented a "thankfulness turkey" they'd cut from paper with an abundance of paper feathers containing handwritten words. "The words are things we're feeling thankful for, like mothers and birthdays and warm houses and sticks and pajamas and jokes and friends". "And my grandpa," someone else said. It was a brief and earnest chorus of Thanksgiving, spontaneously amended by other students; so many words we had to stop. And every word was a delicious reflection of the things that matter most in life. Moving into the holidays, the pace will step up, expectations will escalate but our children's truest, simplest desires will not change a bit. What we mark, they will be marked by. What we bless is what blesses them.

May Umami be present around your tables this week, in your choices and your celebrations. May it enrich reunions and compel the stories told and heard. May it appear in your favorite recipe or come along when you take a walk. May it enliven a family game or embolden conversation. May it be present in your laughter, in your listening and the time you take for little things. May it sparkle at the heart of giving thanks, inspire and reassure you. It is the enduring factor of delicious, right here, right now.

With love,

Mary Z.


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