Dirt Matters!

Just like Chris said in class when we first started reading de Tocqueville...

Last Wednesday Hoyme had an egg scavenger hunt. It was lots of fun and had teams of 5 running all over campus (through the mud-just to keep the dirt theme going) looking for clues and racing back to the Hoyme lobby. After the scavenger hunt was all said and done, Hall Council had DIRT PUDDING waiting for us. Yummy!!
As I sat down with my cup of dirt and worms, I was flooded with memories of my Grandma's house. She used to make dirt pudding for my brother and I every holiday we spent at her house. For 7 year old Clara and 3 year old Brian (my brother), dirt pudding (along with brown cows, cheese chex mix and British board games) was a highlight of Grandma's house.

As I ate the dirt pudding and thought about my childhood, I couldn’t help to wonder how those memories had an influence on who I am today. We all know that the past is an important factor in shaping the future, but it’s odd things like this that make me wonder what little things turn out to be huge in the larger sense of things. It might just mean that I was more excited than I would normally be about free dessert because along with deliciousness I got to relive those memories from when I was little. Can we really measure how important the past is in our present and how important it’s going to be in our future?