We Want You to be Happy
We Want You to be Happy
Dr. Scott V. Nicol, Superintendent of Schools
As we start the 2020 holiday season this Thanksgiving, throughout December and ringing in the New Year, here is an open letter to our children that - if it resonates with you - may be a path forward during these uncertain times.
To the Children of the Ellington Public Schools -
As your parents, teachers, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, custodians and principals, and all others in your life - from Albany Avenue to Frog Hollow Road - we love you!
We love your smile when you eat lunch with a friend. We love your tears when you skin your knee at recess. We love when you falter, consider our advice, and grow as a person. We love everything about you!
Without judgement, we do our best in life. We are imperfect, which makes us all - perfect.
Trey Anastasio (Phish) sings about his daughter Joy (take a listen):
We want you to be happy
Don't live inside the gloom
We want you to be happy
Come step outside your room
We want you to be happy
Cause this is your song too
Your life is yours and ours is ours. Yet, we share these experiences together and they all matter because you - our sons, daughters, students - matter.
Nothing, not a virus, nor a seemingly insurmountable hurdle can deny you from living your life, experiencing everything in all its forms and being fulfilled when in service to others.
We will always be there for you because we love you - no matter what - we love you.
Trey continues:
I never thought I could have it so good
You were the song that my soul understood
That time is a river that flows through the woods
And it led us to places we both understood
Would be gone
Before too long
Would be gone
Before too long
Cherish every emotion, every person you meet, and every experience you have. We want you to be happy and you alone - nobody else - gets to decide your happiness.
Sincerely,
Those who love you
Members of the Ellington Family, enjoy the holiday season and close of 2020 year. Let us give thanks, let us be happy because it will be gone before too long.
This is your song --life-- too.