Eclipse in Nicaragua

The new blog header pic is from the parental back yard.  Nice, no?

First day in Nicaragua is surreal.  Wake up and have banana and papaya for breakfast.  Shower.  Go to the dentist to get teeth cleaned for twenty bucks.  Come back for lunch.  Read through a stack of student work.  Take a few pics of the flora in the back yard.  Stalk a hummingbird.  Make a mental note:  will try to get a pic of a hummingbird, but this will be an ultimate challenge.

Watch parental units in their natural habitat and wonder how is it that Dad has stopped aging?  Somewhere along the line, he just stopped.

Observe parental units in their natural dynamic.  Mom talk, talk, talking.  Plan, plan, planning.  Dad saying, Nay.  No.  Uh-uh.  Somehow it works.  Think about relationships and the whole opposites attract thing.

Read more student work.

Take a break.  Go with Mom to a carne asada joint on the highway.  La Diabla.  Risk life and limb to get said carne asada.  (No real parking.  So you pull up along the shoulder and look for a safe moment to jump out of the car.)  It´s worth it.  Share gallopinto and carne asada and platanos maduros fritos and cabbage salad and pico de gallo with Mom and Dad.

Finish reading student work.  Enter grades.

Look at part of the eclipse.  Watch the corner of the moon dissappear.

Think about the coming new year and all the stuff that´s happened this year.  Wonder, have I learned enough?  Wonder what´s next?  Wonder what it must have felt like many moons ago to look up and see the moon begin to dissappear; eaten by some invisible monster; erased by an invisible hand?  Have faith that the moon will return. 

Go to bed.  Tomorrow, the beach!