Teacher.

Maybe i'm a better teacher now, i dunno. My new students seem to be learning so quickly. They're lovely too, I love them. That's as it should be. In that space, as their teacher, I love them. It's so obvious to me, not so much an intellectualised ethical choice but a deep in the bones knowledge that this is what a teacher must be, how a teacher must be. It's not sentimental: it's spiritual. It's not heroic either. It's quite ordinary. I have always been a good teacher.
In our system (polly) we've always recognised and valued good teachers because we rely on them all the time to teach us. All of us are better teachers because of this, but we believe teaching is a vocation and that while the skill can be developed and refined and while even the worst teachers can become better teachers there is such a thing as a natural teacher (like there is a natural healer or storyteller or entertainer) and we believe it's a worthwhile distinction to maintain. That vocation.
I'm a teacher. That means something in our system. There's a status to it.
I'm proud to be a good teacher.

*beam*
*shimmy*
And I had a great dance today with great attendance at both my morning and evening sessions.