Working for the Weekend

Life, as it seems, has been described as a web, a pattern, a weave of sorts. Lives interconnected in a myriad of ways. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

This Thursday and Friday, in Minnesota, is MEA. This is a statewide conference for teachers, aides, and administrators. There will be numerous booths, speakers, convocations, as well as the obligatory free stuff everyone hands out. All of this to promote and improve education in our fine state.

Needless to say, there is no school for teachers and students on those days.

As the day passed by, I asked many of my students and fellow staff what their plans were for this long weekend. Oh, I'm going to visit friends in Luverne. Vacation in Las Vegas, baby! My cousins are coming over for the weekend and we're making movies. Nothing, really. So and so is staying over at my house. Going to the Twin Cities. A different story and destination for each soul I asked.

It struck me that the description of life as a web was particularity apt. Each of us has our own pattern in our web, connected to those we meet in infinite dimentions. Each meeting becomes a vertex in that web, a point of strength and stability. And though we go our own ways each night, in a thousand different directions, we draw together again and reinforce our previous bonds. With each meeting, our web becomes more glorious and detailed. A limitless lattice crafted from our daily lives.

Truly, an amazing thing to behold.