SuperShero: Rhonda Cash

 Rhonda Cash inducted into the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude for going above and beyond as the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority crossing guard at Glen Park BART. Rhonda (pictured here with my daughter, on her way to school last Friday) is part of the village it takes to raise children and is specifically responsible for teaching my boys to not run out into the street when there red hand is flashing on the crossing sign. Sure, I'd told them this many times but they decided to believe Rhonda. It's extraordinary because hundreds of people have safe passage across the street each morning thanks to Rhonda and her stop sign yet she takes the time to connect on an individual level. When I thanked her for helping my boys she replies "All these kids are mine. I watch out for each one of them." As we discussed my daughter submitting her college applications and that next year she'll not be crossing that street Rhonda says, "Time flies. I ask her every morning, if it's her early day or her late day. She tells me how she is doing in school. And I always tell her, "Follow your dreams. Follow your dreams."Thank you, Rhonda Cash, for being a crossing guard angel.About the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude“The plain fact is that the world does not need more successful people, but it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.” David OrrI deeply admire those who "live well in their places." The ordinary and the unsung who offer to the world the very best parts of themselves without expectation. This is a beautiful expression of love in her calm, persistent, generous manner - offering a ripple of change (a metamorphosis) to the world. Inductees to the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude are caped in recognition of their contributions to a love-filled world.