The  next time you find your­self walk­ing through the halls of Rain­tree, just glance at the stu­dent work you see around you.  Yes, look at the art on the walls, the sculp­tures on shelf-tops, and the col­or­fully tan­gled con­trap­tions hang­ing from the ceil­ing.  If you look closely, smack dab at the cen­ter, you’ll the see the inten­tion, the love, the cre­ative mind of the child within each piece.

We often seem to stand in stark con­trast to the Work­sheet Moun­tain and ROYGBV Val­ley of plas­tic bits and snap-its in many class­rooms today.   The lit­tle folks that fill our cam­pus have a mag­i­cal and pur­pose­ful energy about them.  They bounce and bob­ble as lit­tle kids do, but they also exude an aura, yes an aura, of astro­naut and artist, zool­o­gist and Zen master.