Brainmush, Crap, and Spelling Bees!!!

You hear people talk about nothing all the time and you start to feel your brain going to mush. You think well if I have to listen to crap all day I might as well get drunk, too.  It's a defeative, sad, uninspiring, unworldly place that many of us call "home." I keep trying to get my friends (both of them) and my 78 year old mother to get excited about vocabulary quizzes and spelling bees, or to play questions games to make our brains work in different ways, but they all three have reasons or excuses"as to why they just flat out refuse to participate. Spelling bees and "playing school"is something for everybody of any age. Huge governmental educational initiatives will never succeed because it is not in a school classroom where most relevant learning occurs--it is in the moment of glee you feel as you try to spell a thirteen letter long word and you get it right. Really, it's about getting new spark plugs for most every American adult who believes that once they are out of school, the learning part of life is over. Wise  ones know that is far from being true.