Going way, WAY back

One thing I hadn’t fully anticipated about attending my 50th high school reunion is the fact that I wasn’t only reconnecting with classmates from high school. There were quite a people there who were in my kindergarten class!

Granted, none of them have been particular friends through all the years and decades, but it still gave me pause.

I was pleasurably surprised to see that the reunion committee had organized a display of memorabilia which included binders of class photos from the four elementary schools that fed first into Thomas Russell Junior High and eventually to Milpitas High School.

Incidentally, it’s hard to see in the class photo, but this is definitely one of my all-time favorite pictures!

Playing with blocks

I couldn’t for the life of me come up with an interesting topic for today’s blog, so gave in and started looking a photo that could represent being “stuck” or “blocked”.

But — lo and behold — I started to see photos of building blocks that were exactly the same as what I played with in the primary grades at Joseph Weller Elementary School.

Hadn’t thought of those blocks in over fifty years, but positive memories flooded my mind as soon as I saw them. And I find it fascinating that — despite it seeming like something from several centuries ago — I still felt such a strong, visceral response.

I must have really liked playing with those blocks!