Low Tides.

Field trip this morning.....in the harbor right outside our cottage...low tide.....8:30 a.m.

Maurizio challenges everyone to find as many different seaweeds and critters as they can. Winning team gets a prize. Everyone has their "wellies" on, their equipment - books, pens, cameras, journals....and is moving slowly around the seaweed covered rocks. We are all trying not to slip and fall. So far I don't think anyone has.

Working in pairs, students spread out across the harbor and you see them bent over and examining stuff. Tanya and Sarah found the most stuff. Nick and Kyle - hmmmm.....enough said.

Last night we went to Kilfenora for set dancing. I believe that everyone had a good time. How could you not? Someone told me (when they got there) that there had been a bit of resistance to the trip. "Why didn't you tell us that it we would be going to the dance on the Titanic?" ... referring to the movie, of course.

Interesting to think about a time when all of our history comes from these kinds of re - creations. Is this just a normal unfolding of events? Another (well a new) way of passing on information? Will movies and such soon be our only point of reference??

Writing about Gibson's Neuromancer, Jack Womack says, "The past lingers on in unexpected and unavoidable ways long after we believe it is gone....Our cultural and historical past is readily accessible to everyone today, so long as you choose to turn it on, or download it. Today, as never before - the information media having become to enlightenment as the cereal aisle is to the supermarket - if you choose not to access the past, you are de facto free to rule it out of existence, as least so far as you might be concerned...."