I came across Katie Grant’s presentation to the Colorado Rocky Mountain School student body chronicling her involvement with “Face Aids” (Colorado Rocky Mountain School junior inspires student body with Face Aids presentation). Great cause. Katie sounds like a great student.

But, I like most her closing exhortation. As we travel home or spend time in comfortable surroundings during the next couple of months, her talk provides a nice framework to think about how and what we’ve done in the past year and how we’ll approach the future. What can we contribute to tomorrow?

“…With the coming holiday season and the holiday spirit in the air, with a seemingly endless supply of food and gifts it can become easy to forget just how fortunate we are. It can be a time when we take our good fortune for granted or…. we can use the holiday spirit to appreciate what we have,….. and share it with others.

A Haitian proverb says “Beyond mountains there are mountains.” In other words as you solve one problem another one often presents itself, one of the great things about CRMS is they shine a light on a lot of the world’s problems and give us the tools to problem solve. Before we leave tonight I encourage all of us to take a couple of moments to reflect on a problem that you are passionate about, and think of ways that you can help that cause. — Katie Grant, 11th grade, Colorado Rocky Mountain School presentation to the entire student body at an evening program”(CRMS)