Today is a school holiday for the local public school system. I live near a public high school, and just now when I returned home from an early doctor's appointment I found my whole street, and the street parallel to mine, swarming with high school students. They are working their way along the street raking and bagging leaves in all of the front yards. (Very wet and heavy leaves, because it rained last night.) They are asking for nothing -- just a huge cheerful bunch of kids working together. With all the bad press these days about teenagers, I really wanted to share this. It totally lifted my spirits.
