Big clunking gates

It is said that if you want someone's full support, let them think it
is their idea.

Adding my own less manipulative addendum to this is to just wait
until they think of it and ask for your help.

When I first started teaching, I wanted to bring my background in
video editing to the students, but was given the run around of locked
up cameras and computers that everyone was sure existed. They were
mythical and I never did see them. Besides, I had my classroom to
take care of as a beginning teacher and refused to divert my energy
in vain.

Two years later, I am invited into a special program (though it is
not all totally definite) to bring a media arts program to the
school, including specialized training to certify assistant editors.
It feels like not just a window or a door opening, but some big,
clunking gates swinging wide open with a simple, light exhale to an
entire castle of new possibilities. How fun.