Look at all those hands.

Every time we get on a call and the kids start shooting their arms up to answer, I forget for a second how far apart we all are. Japan on one side, Manila on the other, and the USA but somehow it just... works. It feels like a real classroom. A real community.

But there's a quiet ache underneath all that joy.

Some of these kids will be adopted. Some will move to new homes, new families, new lives. And we celebrate that, genuinely. A family is everything. But we don't always know if we'll get to keep going with them after that. Sometimes a goodbye happens and we don't even realize it was the last class.

So I hold these moments a little tighter.

I hope that wherever life takes them, they carry a small piece of this with them. That somewhere in the back of their memory, there's a screen full of faces cheering them on, and they remember they were loved here.

You were seen here. Always. 

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