Tonight, the teens and I were working on a grant application. I'd outlined most of it, based on their ideas for the project. But some substance still needed to be added, and in true youth development fashion, they had to answer a couple of the questions.
One of the youth tonight is relatively new. I've noticed that she's a smart one, and also an amazingly caring and otherwise talented one. But it wasn't until she began re-phrasing some of the application that I realized how amazing her writing talents are.
N drafted the responses to the questions they had to answer, carefully selecting every word; and keeping the best to the very last sentence - "to blow them away," she said. Blow THEM away? She blew ME away.
I had stepped out of the room, to give them all a chance to really focus on their questions without me there. And after a few minutes N came to me and told me she didn't like how I'd phrased the goal, and what did I think of this new phrasing she came up with. Hm. I took one look at it and new I was in the presence of greatness.
This is the benefit of having the younger youth step up: they get their own times to shine, too. And shine they will.
I'm truely lucky to work with such a great bunch of youth. And grateful for N's passion for writing...
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