The Compassion Games begin tomorrow and I’ll once again be facilitating the Secret Agent of Compassion game. It’s a lot of fun, but with school starting this week, too, it makes for some busy days.
Tomorrow night I’ll be part of the Opening Ceremonies at the Seattle Center. I’m to give a 10 minute pep talk to all the secret agents in attendance, swearing them in as members of the International Kindness Team. It sounds like fun, but I wonder what I’ll be saying…
Celeste got up early today in order to be present at Roosevelt High School for Green & Gold Day, also known as Freshmen Orientation. Now, technically, Celeste is not a freshman (she’s in 10th grade). But since she’s new to Roosevelt, it was recommended she attend the orientation. So she got up early and spent time learning just how big an American high school is.
Yes, Roosevelt is big.
Meanwhile, 180 miles south of Roosevelt High School in Seattle is Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland. And via text came this picture from Ella with a green and gold hue. The words that came with the picture in the text were, “Beer tasting today.”
That’s a class Ella’s paternal grandfather can get behind.
Last week we sent Ella a care package. Inside I included things like snack pudding and sugared cereal. Either that makes me a great dad or a horrible one. Maybe it makes me both. Anyway, now I’m getting text messages from Ella of images like these. I like this. A lot.
I just took this screenshot to capture Barack Obama in Seward, Alaska. He was visiting Seward to see the effects of climate change firsthand. Now what makes this even more interesting to me is that I lived in Seward in 1982, working there as an AM deejay. Ronald Reagan was the president then and I don’t recall him visiting…
