Lucy wants to take Kevins' crown of laurels for her own
Kevin was invited to participate in Bryn Mawr's May Day festivities this past weekend. It involved him wearing an elaborate Apollo costume and marching about four blocks amid other students, costumed professors, the college president in a horse-drawn carriage, and a random fire eater or two.
The children were much more impressed by the fire eaters than their father as Greek god.
The entire even was hard core TRADITION in a way that I've not ever experienced, not even in the context of organized religion, to say nothing of higher education.
I'm pretty sure the biggest college traditions for both undergrad and grad school involved basketball and alcohol, shouting epithets at our rivals, and then setting stuff on fire. Is this what we miss out on by not attending a liberal arts college?*
There was dancing around the May Pole, and then dancing around the May Hole (to counter the phallocentric nature of the May Pole), lots of girls in white, the spectacle and the joy, and so many girls in tears. Why so many tears?
It wasn't so much a family event, and there was a very real chance that Peter and Lucy would dump five gallons worth of bottled water from the water dispenser, so we left not long after the parade.
But not before Lucy could shout out "LOOK AT MY BIG VAGINA!"**
I'm pretty sure she found the only place around where such a comment could be cause for applause. Oh, our little girl, breaking the chains of patriarchy at such a young age...
*That and $200,000 in college loans.
**This comment has actual context, but really, who needs it?
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