On November 1st of 2008, I had the honor to drive four giggling excited girls to meet their idol. It is not often that I get to listen to a group of kids these days and know that what they are saying is important, life changing, and memorable. As I peered through the buckets of rain that Mother Nature threw at our van, I thought back to when I was a little girl and in love with Dr. Jane Goodall. Here I was taking my ten year old to see her.
There is no limit to what a good person can inspire. Dr Jane has inspired these girls to be more responsible with their environment, with the animals they love, with the people they come in contact with on a daily basis and with their own soul. These were the things I was hearing, as I tried to both drive and listen. Of course I plucked the meaning of the rambling words of four ten year olds who said things in broken sentences, and interjected thoughts of what we might be eating for lunch in the middle of a profound statement about global warming… but the true heart of the day bounced around inside the van. All I had to do was take one look in the rear view mirror at my daughter or the other girls who had perma-grin, to know that in just three or four hours they would be standing next to someone they looked up to, read about, studied, saw on T.V, did reports about in class, and now…now were about to share a moment in time with.
It was too much for me. I was glad when we arrived that the whole day was moist and my eyes were not alone.
I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to not only see Dr. Jane speak, but to see my daughter and the girls in my Roots and Shoots club see Dr. Jane speak. To watch them, watching her was one of the best days of my life.
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