l.p. - luminous pondering - hmm...

International Peace Day. I attend this thing, lunchtime, in a park nearby... Fine speeches - if all too mechanical... Kids - lots of kids. The local schools brought them in and prepped them for it, too. Some wrote awkward little pieces proclaiming how much they love the earth, all nations, etc... Peace is the only way - such is the consensus. The most original piece, written by a 12 year-old, imagines a formal dialogue between Mother Africa, Sister Europe, Daughter America (there should be two daughters, kid... B+ for the effort.) Politicians are au rendez-vous - why not? It costs nothing to show up for twenty minutes - and the possibilities to reap big time, come election time, are huge. The finale: some music teacher got a bunch of angelic voiced-kids and assorted volunteers of all ages to sing in a rag-tag choir. Four songs, vaguely familiar. Why four? Don't they know the Asian aversion to that number? (Not to mention all other hockey towns and teams whenever they played the f...