Kamron Yazdani, a student with the Global Village School, read and responded to the YES! He is our high school winner for the Spring 2011 writing competition. Some might call this being an old soul, but I feel as naïve as a child most of the time. There is no pretense with a small child; they are the easiest and most straightforward of all human beings. Last January, at a conference in Florida, I sat in a roomful of teens and adults listening to a speaker when I suddenly felt the presence of little ones next to me.