My sister-of-the-heart sent me her 2013-2014 school picture today along with a lovely card.
Lorna Luttter
Lorna is someone I not only love, I really respect her as well. She worked as a teacher's aide at Yankee Ridge when I taught there, and it was when she was assigned to my classroom one year that I really got to know her. A single mom, she moved out of the projects of Chicago and brought her two daughters to Champaign for a better life. Like me, her religion is very important to her, and many times we had gospel discussions or prayed together for our students. ("Our babies" according to Lorna.) She is passionate about helping children and puts her heart and soul into her work.
We used to laugh that we were sisters of the heart since we had so much in common and loved each other so much. (And she wrote a note to that effect on the back of the picture.)
I keep her picture on my desk at Hershey; tomorrow I will change it for the updated one she just sent me. I will send her mine as well.
