Vonnegut, Waits & Costello

I like to joke with the students at PSCS about the REAL graduation requirements of the school. Our handbooks and school literature all say something about attendance and senior projects and stuff like that, etc, etc. But the real deal is much simpler.

To graduate, the students have to take a “Kurt Vonnegut” class (facilitated by ME) and their parents have to appreciate the music of Tom Waits (I explain that I just can’t expect teens to appreciate Tom Waits, but their parents, now that’s another story).

I got to thinking about this today as I found this picture of Chloe from 1993. Way back then I was trying to get her to appreciate Elvis Costello and shared with her this magazine article over graham crackers and juice, the afternoon snack. I put on his latest CD, “Brutal Youth” (an apt title if ever there was one for a baby with a father like me) and we got busy.

Today’s Question: What’s important to you that you want your kids (or someone else’s kids) to know about?

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While not at all in the same category at all, I want my grandkids to know the pleasure of eating a tomato ripe off the vine that grew from the plants they watched grow, to make snow ice cream which uses no machine, and to walk barefoot in the mud and LIKE it!

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Linda Taylor says:

January 18, 2012 at 18:13

While not at all in the same category at all, I want my grandkids to know the pleasure of eating a tomato ripe off the vine that grew from the plants they watched grow, to make snow ice cream which uses no machine, and to walk barefoot in the mud and LIKE it!

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