Off on Thursday to see the grandchildren play ball. The team of the youngest didn't quite have the mustard this time. The game of the oldest was forfeited when the opponents couldn't field a full team. No runs, no hits, no errors, no player or fan broke a sweat, and still a win. So we were fifty fifty; can't beat that.
While looking at the Skogman Real Estate ad in the Cedar Rapids paper, I was intrigued to note that there were three full pages of pictures of their agents. Not a single face of color visible. Hmmmm!
More irony. We were browsing the CR Barnes and Noble and came upon a display of books advertised as gifts for Dad on Fathers Day. Every single volume on the table was about war or weapons. HMMMMM! The caps mean Hmmmm intensified.
Home on Saturday to do a two hour stint at our local history museum and then on Sunday up to the Quad City Music Guild's production of Cabaret. Playing Sally Bowles was former student Melissa Anderson-Clark. I am most proud when those young people continue to do theatre after they leave college. Art as a key part of life exemplfies the core of the liberal arts experience. And in addition both of her children are active in performance. To top if off her dad, a successful MD and also a Monmouth College grad, participates in theatre as well. Kudos to a remarkable family giving back to the Quad Cities.
Need a read? A challenging article in the May 20th New Yorker is titled "The Ivy League's Online Push." It explores in some depth both the potential strengths and weaknesses of formal internet education. It moves us to consider once again the mystery of education. Why do some students remember a moment in a classroom years before as a deciding path in their lives and some find difficulty in stopping the moment for even a second before it passes out of the other ear unfettered by thought or consideration? Does the fact that Zuckerberg and Gates dropped out of college demonstrate that their education was a success or a failure? Check it out. As the author, Nathan Heller, notes: ". . . the mechanism by which conveyed knowledge blooms into an education" may "either enrich teaching in this country or deplete it." Now if we can just understand the mystery of the mechanism.
Need a longer and more theatrical read? Try Priya Parmar's EXIT THE ACTRESS. I guess I would call it bio-fiction. It pretty accurately chronicles the life of famed Restoration actress Ellen "Nell" Gwyn, but it is couched in the form of a diary, which as far as we know, Nell never wrote.
Now on to deeper things like the sand trap behind number two at Gibson Woods.
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