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:
- Travel.
- Pro Sports
- The sordid details of the civic drama
- New Laws, good and bad
- Suspected embezzlement within the top ranks of a local company
- Medications and the decline of medical education
- The best search engins to use
- Religion, to corruption in the church
- Lack of faith in the church
- The impending fall of the Texas Tech infrastructure
- Horrendous injuries sustained on vacation
- Horrendous injuries sustained in the work place
- Kids, lack of ambition and over ambitious
- Grand-kids, spoiled and deprived
- Upcoming vacations & upcoming elections
- Views on local fitness centers
- Hospital Politics
- City Management vs Business Management theory
- Weight gain of friends who aren't here
- Running Half Marathons
- Local Arts & Local Music
- The best vacations to take
- Movies
- Getting older
- 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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