Today was the last day of the 2020/2021 school year: we had a faculty breakfast, acknowledged and expressed our appreciation for the faculty members who will not be returning to the school next year, and packed away the last of our materials, closing up our room for the summer.

Endings used to bother me as a kid because I never could be sure that what came after would be as good as what I’d just experienced. That’s no longer the case because I realized as I grew older that, as long as no disaster strikes, there’s no better or worse — just different.