toddnyallison:

gallusrostromegalus:

gallusrostromegalus:

Hi I just got back from the BEST eclipse party with the kids at Durango Elementary, my faith in the future is restored.

• Someone made “eclipse cookies” which are sable cookies with a dark center and a pale crescent or corona, good job PTA Mom Jennifer
• Kids were SO HYPE for the eclipse, and were thrilled to explain it over and over to me
• Great grasp of orbital physics for a bunch of 5-10 year olds
• Someone’s dad brought in a theremin?
• The whole school is space-themed this week.
• I watched a 4th-grader give a presentation on abiogenesis and how different planets may have things like nitrogen-beased lifeforms and holy fuck that was rally cool???
• I think it;s the theremin-dad’s kid.
• Bless the small child trying to hold his glasses up to the iguana so he could see it too.
• Also bless all the teachers in FMA/Little Shop of Horrors/Avatar shirts.
• Kids had a great time , Adults had a good time, everyone had a great time.
• Like really, I believe in the post-millenials .  They can make Starfleet Happen.

WAIT SHIT THERE’S MORE:

• Someone from the Southern Ute tribe came down to talk about their mythology regarding the eclipse but I got there just when he was wrapping up and missed most of it 😦
• Other ppl from Spellbinders Storytellers were there with other tales about the eclipse.  I got to hear about a Chinese astronomer who made the first written records of a solar eclipse and possibly a supernova
• Kids had a voting jar for their favorite astronaut.  Mae C. Jemmison is currently in the lead, but at least some of the kids think she’s Uhura.  Oh well.
• Lovecraftian child attempting to open a portal to another world by drawing sigils in the tam-bark.  You go kid.  
• Someone made a planetary model of the eclipse out of cake.  I got a slice of the Sea Of Tranquility.
• Pack of ten-year-olds debating the best way to terraform mars, and whether we should move all the animals there, because earth is polluted, or whether all the humans should leave earth because we don’t deserve it.  It was an extremely serious discussion.

I love kids and this is why