Splash the Puddles

I've been working this week to select the recipients for my end of the year awards at school. Some are selected by meeting a certain criteria, and some are selected at my discretion. It's hard, this task of choosing who deserves which honor. In my eyes, they're all deserving of an honor in one sense or another. I try each year, to disperse as evenly as possible. It's not that I'm a proponent of everyone gets a cookie. Sometimes, not everyone deserves the cookie. Everyone does deserve to have their value recognized though, whether or not they happen to be high achievers or the best behaved. Sometimes, you are amazing and still fail to fit into one of the defined categories of recognition available. It's hard. But school rewards are a thing. A good thing. A thing to be celebrated. Just not the most important thing. Not the only thing. As I rationalize to myself who truly worked hard for and earned each award, sometimes loathing the task before me, my mind wander