responsibility
Jun. 7th, 2011 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwI had a whole bunch of links for linking, and random thoughts, but I'll mostly skip that due to time constraints. One of the topics was whether to actually try to work up to running the half-marathon in Lowell in October, or to forget that and keep running comfortable distances like a 5K. If I'm going to run/jog at all in the next few days, I better do it now (since I can't do it an hour ago, which was my original plan), because the prediction is for brutal hotness over the next few days, better weather for swimming than running.
This interesting opinion piece http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/06/07/137025147/anthony-weiner-takes-full-responsibility-whatever-that-means?ft=1&f=1014&sc=tw
reminded me of Flo coming home from the first week of kindergarten, telling us that they had been issued "personal responsibility crayons." The point was that each kid got a box of the big thick ones useful in learning to write, instead of a classroom set for communal use. The little students were supposed to take care of them, and I guess she did, because 20 years later, they are still here, worn down but unbroken. If I assigned tags to these posts, I suppose that could have gone into the "stuff" category. They are still usable. Colored markers (which in many contexts replaced crayons) from that time period certainly would not be. Hmm. Are they useful if they aren't in the hands of someone who would use them? I suppose I should donate them to a child or other artist.
This interesting opinion piece http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/06/07/137025147/anthony-weiner-takes-full-responsibility-whatever-that-means?ft=1&f=1014&sc=tw
reminded me of Flo coming home from the first week of kindergarten, telling us that they had been issued "personal responsibility crayons." The point was that each kid got a box of the big thick ones useful in learning to write, instead of a classroom set for communal use. The little students were supposed to take care of them, and I guess she did, because 20 years later, they are still here, worn down but unbroken. If I assigned tags to these posts, I suppose that could have gone into the "stuff" category. They are still usable. Colored markers (which in many contexts replaced crayons) from that time period certainly would not be. Hmm. Are they useful if they aren't in the hands of someone who would use them? I suppose I should donate them to a child or other artist.
