A respite
It's Memorial Day weekend in the USA. The last Monday in May is a federal holiday that my grandmother (1901-1984) called Decoration Day. It began as a day to decorate the graves of the Civil War dead. Many people will be involved in patriotic ceremonies all over the country on Monday. But more people will be taking a short vacation on this three-day weekend.Memorial Day is now a symbolic beginning of summer for those of us in the northern part of the US. (In my back yard the lilacs and the flowering crab apple tree are flowering two weeks later than normal.) In many places it also marks the end of the school year, and in Indianapolis there's a big auto race.
All that's my way of saying that there won't be any activity here until the middle of next week.
Labels: pedagogy
posted by Ken Wedding @ 7:22 AM
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