Last night, as I was driving home with my extensive playlist on shuffle, a Jonathan Richman song came on, bringing everything I have been experiencing at Carondelet into focus:

“You are the light of the world
So why is your world so grey?

You are the light of the world
So why are you so bored?

Are you tired
Of your drab ways
Them drab an’ stagnant ways…”

That’s right, friends! All of this talk about advancing mission, new state-of-the-art facilities, immersions, innovations–why we cannot keep doing what is no longer working (if it ever worked)–is the antidote to “drab an’ stagnant ways.”

I must say, I have never been in a more vibrant work environment than Carondelet.

Thank you for being light, for being anything but drab, and for bringing the best out in me, our students, and one another.