I was waiting for the next show and reading this web log to see what I'd written exactly a year before, on June 9th.  It turns out I'd written about a great class with students, at the end of which they wrote about why the world is a good place.  I'd copied some of their responses at the end of it, because they were truly special.  As I read them, I thought of how much I missed that group.  They were a fun one.

Later, before I was seated, one last couple got up from their seats from the first show and made their way past me to the exit.  The woman looked a little familiar, and much more so when she recognized me and made that "whoa" face people make when they see someone unexpectedly.  She had been a student in the very class I'd just been nostalgic for.  She'd written:

"We can talk and express our opinion to each other and we can understand each other.  We create "the answer" for difficult problems together".

After all the hello's and "Oh my God!"'s I told her what I just told you, and showed her the writing on my phone.  She was blown away, and then I took a picture with her and her date.

Then I got the best seat I've ever gotten