Dinner for Eight
Near the middle of the summer of 2021 I sat down and have dinner with most of my team at work. There were exactly eight of us. The flow of the conversation and evening went perfectly. I started thinking to myself is 8 the magic number for a dinner party? Especially important as we restore a our social lives to a semblance of what was. But if we resort to the same old two step are we doing ourselves a disservice? Yes, this is an epistemological look at the structure of a dinner party. If experience is the stuff of life and dinner parties are an experience, than this is important stuff to ruminate on.
Banned Books
My parents taught us to read before we started school. Pizza Hut ran promotions that got us to read more in exchange for more slices. Reading Rainbow helped us explore new genres and and adventures at scale. Our treasured but not appreciated enough teachers guided us to find deeper meaning in every word and page. This reading journey has been one where we have peered from behind the eyes of protagonist of all shapes and colors. We have been with them as they conquered dragons, faced racism head on, rebuilt fallen societies, discovered their own self and identity, and weeped with them at every loss.