Grand Friends Day
Elaine and I attended the Montessori School open house for Grandparents of their students. Both of Elaine's grandkids go to that school, and we were able to visit Lily and Luka in their classrooms. This was our third year to attend and, as usual, we had a good time.
The Headmistress mentioned that they try to teach the kids to listen to others and to engage in meaningful conversations. They are told that conversation should be KIND, TRUE, and NECESSARY. I like that.
We had to get up at 5:45 am to make it by 8:30 am. And we did make it... sleepy as we were. There was a Continental breakfast waiting for attendees. Grandparents came from all over the place, including Belgium, Peru and Russia. The Russian man knew no English and I was tempted to try some of my very rusty Russian on him.. I thought better of it because that language, as well as my other ones, has died from non-use. I'm lucky to still be able to speak English.
Lily and Luka are also lucky. They have three sets of Grandparents. One lady from Kansas City thought that Elaine and I were Francine and Neal, and kept saying nice Yiddish things to us, a bit of which I understood. She could speak English all right.. she just wanted to connect.
As part of the morning, we visited a Book Fair put on by the school. I purchased a bird watching book: Spot the Bird. As you see a bird, you put a sticker next to its picture in the book. Seems like a little fun for Elaine and me.
I also bought a Junior High School kind of book called: Fright-lopedia. Scary stuff to prepare for Halloween.
I asked the Headmistress if any of the kids belonged to Mensa? She had never heard of it.... huh! When I explained it, she said that she did not like the idea of grouping kids by IQ. I had to agree with her, even though I still think that some kind of measurement must be made to ensure that people with the same kind of "smarts" could get together and perhaps solve some of life's problems through brain power.
Some of my greatest "mind adventures" took place at Mensa meetings, and the Mensa Bulletin has remarkable articles that force you to use your Brain. I'm thinking about putting up a notice where I live to see if there are any Mensa members living here besides me. I'd like to see us have a monthly meeting to discuss... well.. everything!
After our Montessori adventure, we went to Kenilworth and ate some PIZZA! It tastes real good when you don't have it very often. We ate it at a table near the dried out central fountain where elves are building a railroad village for Christmas.
Afterwards, Elaine shopped a bit and I bought another book: Scandalous Baltimore!... or some title like that. It outlines twenty or so "scandals" that took place in our fair city over two hundred years. Lots of stuff about Edgar Allen Poe, Al Capone, and other notables like H.L. Mencken. Also, remember that there is a reason one of the nicknames for Baltimore is Mobtown.
After all this, we hurried home to find out what stupid thing Mr. Trump said or did today.
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