Monday, August 31, 2009
Escuela
This past week, public schools here in San Miguel opened for business. We have a primary school just up the street from as and as I was leaving the house last Tuesday, I just stood and marveled at the stream of families walking past, headed to and from the school. Not just just moms or grandmas, but entire families. I watched a young working class couple deposit their daughter then slowly walk back toward their home, hand-in-hand, sharing a liquado. At that moment, everything made total sense to me. Neighborhood, family, connection, seasons, love... Later that day, I happened past a nearby high-ticket, bilingual private school as parents arrived to get their kids. A long line of SUV's and minivans jockying for position, parents anxiously glancing at watches, kids being hustled out of the building.... Who's got the better life? Which family would I like to be part of? And thinking back, which family did my own kids grow up in? Later that evening, this little life lesson came full circle as I came across the following little couplet from the poet W.H. Davies:
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
What is it indeed?
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
What is it indeed?
# posted by goots @ 4:30 AM 
