We checked out the lights in cemetary tonight during our drive to bring my girls home. It seems strange that people would put lights next to tombstones. I think they are those solar powered things.
The snow that fell today had the spirit of fireflies mixed in. It was flickering in the moonlight when I got home tonight and it made me think of early June. Maybe I will call it 'sparkle snow', 'June Snow', Firefly Snow" or "Twinkle Flake." It looked like little chips of mika in the asphault flickering on a sunny day on a road in Maine.
I went to a conference for my day job today and I ran into an old collegue. Back in the 90s there were a group of us who ran big federal grants that came out under the clinton adminstration. She was one of our crew. We were hell bent on changing the world. The idea behind the money was to make school more relevant to world we live, to engage kids in learning that was interesting.
We joked about how stupidly idealistic we were back then. We laughed at how silly we were to believe that we could actually make things better for kids on a large scale in a beauracracy as rigid and huge as public education. It was our entree into the big picture and it wasn't long before we all became jaded. I get sad thinkin about it. I wish I was as stupidly idealistic now as I was then. I wish I believed some of the same things. I am still idealistic but I think I've become a "Closet Idealist" in my old age. What good is closet idealist and what the hell am I saving my energy for?
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