Tuesday, October 27. 2026
Part of my job today at elementary school was to be a morning greeter. The non-classroom teachers all have morning jobs helping kids get into school. My job was to stand outside and help keep the walkers in line by grade and to welcome them to school. Kids who are going to eat breakfast walk right up and into the building, while the non-eaters wait outside until the bell rings. Just after I stepped outside, a kid walked past me in for breakfast. His shoes red & blue and blue & red – meaning they had the same fading pattern on each of them, but in reverse colors. I watched him and said I liked his shoes, but he didn’t hear me. I looked at the first kid in line, right in front of me, and said, “How cool was that? I have never seen non-matching shoes before. I think it is great.” He didn’t say anything, but just looked at me, then looked down at his own feet. I looked at his feet. Unmatched shoes!!! Amazing. What are the chances? I quickly looked at everyone’s feet – all matching shoes as far as the eye could see. I told him his shoes were amazing. He said he thought the store only had one of the one color, so he had to get them unmatched. I do not think he was a very reliable little kid as far as shopping goes. But maybe. (I’m trying to imagine him trying on the display shoe, then not finding its mate and having the clerk say, that’s okay, just take one of a different color…?) Anyway, I took the potd with his permission.
We went to Northrop auditorium to see a Halloween concert by Caleb Hudson, a really good trumpet player from the Canadian Brass, and Greg Zelek, a really good organist. It was a great concert. I went to see the trumpet player, but hearing Bach’s Toccata and Fuge in D minor was my favorite part. I have been planning a Metro Brass Halloween concert in my head for quite a while. I think Halloween is underserved by concerts.