Food for thought
(11/20/07 5:00am)
I maintain a love/hate relationship with Thanksgiving.
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I maintain a love/hate relationship with Thanksgiving.
I recently perused my regular paper circuit to find that Paul Tibbets-the man who piloted the B-52 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima-passed away at the age of 92.
After checking out the latest happenings at Duke Med, I don't know whether it's time to mourn my friends' lower left abdominal scars or break into a shout of thanksgiving over that dreaded, disguised bellyache that never plagued my childhood.
Go for a run and feel the freedom of your legs carrying you. Hold a newborn baby in your arms. Watch the water glide smoothly over a swimmer's shoulders. Catch a rhythm as you salsa dance. Heck, even admire the prison-built physique of someone like 50 Cent (just kidding. Kind of).
During my years being groomed into a genteel Southern debutante in Rocky Mount, Va., I learned a thing or two about appropriate interactions in "polite" society.
Pull out your white sandals and French pedicures to match. With commencement ceremonies complete, belongings successfully relocated and farewells until fall behind us, the long-awaited arrival of summer has, well, arrived. Sure, we anticipate the Memorial Day weekend to fully inaugurate our sunny freedom, but signs of the season are already evident in preparation for cookouts, pool parties and vacation. For most of the student body, summer is a time to leave the books (and sometimes the brain), transcripts and reading lists behind without guilt-though I note some students are able to do this year-round. But unless you hail from the North Pole, the taste of Summer Break is as sweet as a ripe watermelon and as refreshing as a water fight on a humid Durham day. Who wouldn't want to kick back, relax and leave the lessons, trials and triumphs of the past year behind?