Look at how tired my eyes are. We ended up staying up till about 1am last night watching a special on the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Basketball Dream Team. And while I don't remember watching basketball during that summer of '92 when I left Oklahoma and moved to Nebraska for college, I do remember going to McDonalds a lot and getting the Dream Team cups. Do you remember those? They had Jordan, Barclay, Magic, Bird, Pippen and several others on their extra large drinks. I haven't thought of those cups in 20 years, but when I did, I was taken back to the many trips we made to the outskirts of our small town of Seward to even find a McDonald's. That's where you could find the only Walmart as well and the restaurant, The Peppercorn that I worked at for a few years. Which made me think about the haven't-found-better-anywhere-else homemade chips and salsa and the drinks I got to make bartending, which made me think about how much I wanted a margarita with chips & salsa.
Now what does the 1992 Dream Team, or my college years have to do with the 2012 VBS at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Pearland, Texas? Not much, except I love any example of a random train of thought. When I used to teach, I'd give the kids a word. I've give them a couple of minutes to do some word associations and after a short amount of time, see what each person came up with. For example -
Cat - Boo Radley(my cat's name) - To Kill a Mockingbird - Scout - Girl scouts - Brownies - chocolate - Reeses - peanut butter.
Fun, isn't it? And while I end up with peanut butter, the kid next to me ends up with Hawaii. And somewhere in those thoughtful word trains, you can often find a topic to write about.
But this post wasn't supposed to be about lists of words, but since I've hi-jacked with a writing lesson, I'll try to get back to my point via word association.
Vacation Bible School - Jesus - love - kids - teaching - busy - tired - feet - rest - relax - margarita - chips - salsa - yum.
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