Saturday, April 6, 2013

Saturday Morning Observances

Having breakfast at the local grocery market cafe every Saturday, I see and hear an abundance of things.

I over hear conversations in a variety languages, moms spending a less stressful morning at breakfast with grandparents and kids, fathers getting to know their kids and asking them about their week, husbands and wives eating having breakfast in silence sharing a paper, and a variety of different groups of friends meeting to catch up on life, etc.

This morning, while I sat waiting for my students to arrive, I was privileged to overhear a very interesting series of conversations with a group of old friends.
The players: a pilot for a commercial airline {A}, his wife {B}, a newly appointed local judge {C}, his wife {D}, another man who seems to know much about the City Counsel & local politics (I guess he's a lawyer or journalist) {E}, and another woman who also knows a lot about city politics, but who still seems to be a few steps removed from the actual city government {F}.

Topics they've covered so far:

  1. Travel. 
  2. Pro Sports
  3. The sordid details of the civic drama
  4. New Laws, good and bad
  5. Suspected embezzlement within the top ranks of a local company
  6. Medications and the decline of medical education
  7. The best search engins to use
  8. Religion, to corruption in the church
  9. Lack of faith in the church
  10. The impending fall of the Texas Tech infrastructure
  11. Horrendous injuries sustained on vacation 
  12. Horrendous injuries sustained in the work place
  13. Kids, lack of ambition and over ambitious
  14. Grand-kids, spoiled and deprived
  15. Upcoming vacations & upcoming elections
  16. Views on local fitness centers
  17. Hospital Politics
  18. City Management vs Business Management theory
  19. Weight gain of friends who aren't here
  20. Running Half Marathons
  21. Local Arts & Local Music
  22. The best vacations to take
  23. Movies
  24. Getting older
  25. and so many more... 


I have learned so much this morning and wish that I could have joined in the conversation...

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