Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Three Beautiful Things 05/05/08: Essays, More Limbo, Old Laughter

1. I spent much of the day reading WR 122 essays, many of them about what our work teaches us, others about the merits of free thinking and the downfalls of closed-mindedness. Meeting with this class is a pleasure every Tuesday and Thursday evening and reading their insights, stories, and reflections made this day one of sweet labor.

2. Margaret opened the floor for discussion of Limbo today and our students verbalized their many experiences with what expectations they have grown up with regarding the world of work and social status; comments ranged from the proud to the puzzled to the bemused to the heartbroken.

3. The Deke and I have had a long-standing joke between us about a couple of musicians here in town, and, lo and behold, they have popped up in her life again and gave us some grist for laughter this evening.

1 comment:

Go Figure said...

Just what the heck is 'grist'? Is it like 'grits'?