Resumption of Hostilities: Resuming Recess...It's Astronomic!

A Precession-ary: on the cause, for the pause, what the future gens may experience when coming onto such a scene, jogging (if it's still allowed) their collective memory, to a basic law in physics, astronomically speaking, as in "any of several gravity-induced, slow and continuous changes in an astronomical body's rotational axis or orbital path..." 

No Way! A common exclamation which will likely endure, stand the test of time, even of the still celebrated institution, which spurred a lot of excitatory responses from earlier beings, as in "bodies and minds in perpetual motion..." as in at least for a brief period each day...in some locales even a two-fer! The popularity came to the attention of several entrepreneurs, spurring a so-called "cottage" industry, which saw the land-scape of the earlier recess!-ionals pivot, into one dotted with various "play things" that came to "usurp" (that's what I imagine I would have overheard youngsters coming in from the play-ground, would have said about these "new-fangled" structures that replaced the ones they had constructed out of more natural materials...) the simplicity of experience, then (de)volving to a place and time of day, that became, at least for the "grown-ups" (the ones that dreamed up all this 'stuff' then became perturbed that we found new uses...) a "cause Celebre" -- one which even brought occasional legal actions, due to liability as well as what came to the youngsters whose innocence was pierced, as a complete surprise...libel-ess! the latter a condition which eventually, as the number of legal begals became a "critical mass" preoccupied so much time and eventually broke the piggy bank of so many of the accused, that it found them wanting...less: "Maybe it's no longer worth it..."

The Sands of Time, turn on a dime: That is, when something or a longstanding trend, suddenly (so it seems) turns a different direction, all-together. Such as in a seismic shift, in climactic conditions -- the latter of which I leave for you to apply in whatever sense makes sense to you, allow you to make sense of such a such a condition we would not presumably even "dream of" forcing our children to endure...such as a "Life without Recess!" So how could THEY (of course it's not OUR fault, right?) allow this to happen? How could THEY manage to "take a silk purse and make it into a sow's ear"? (when was the last time you turned this phrase?) That is, just how, in this world (with gravity and such) did THEY manage to take U.S. who were so well, "endowed" -- "bodies in perpetual motion..." that THEY even undertook to create a perfect place and time for US to get out and play, get out our pent up frustrations, learn what was worth standing up, fighting for, after drawing the line in the sand...what brought all this to a screeching "HALT!?" 

It didn't happen, overnight: It actually happened in the light of day, but while WE were other-wise pre-occupied, perhaps looking down, at a screen, which THEY, perhaps by design, first allowed, then even subtly encouraged, so as to "deconstruct" then decelerate...our minds, then our bods (or was it the other way around?). A "fait accompli"? Not quite; read on... 

Disruption, B4 Resumption: It's always been this way, in and out of the classroom...that is, when a "few bad apples" who "ruin a good thing" (such as a "silk purse") and it, even such as a time-tested, coveted institutionalized experience as RECESS! can be "yanked!" away from the rest of US...

Child's Play (?) As in what the sign at the door, I mean gate said: "Caution, children at play...no dogs, bicycles, fire arms...." Well, I guess it wasn't quite so ex-clusive. As I am here, close to the end of this post, but hardly not exhausted what I have to say on this ALL important subject. Here with a fun fact about children at play, at Recess! Did you take note that I posted this right about the same time that those so-called "lawmakers" who have working "indefatigably" (as one journalist took note) to pass laws -- funding bills in particular, which keep our government open for at least another several months, the amounts of which will, of course add to the future generations already HUGE! debt burden, which will, in turn keep them up at all hours, as in "working day and night"? All this, in order that these legislators are able to go home and have Recess! A most CurioUS State of affairs, eh? This, in addition to what the future generations learn were topics, areas of special interest, to the "special interest groups" which collectively led to a new sign, the "children of tomorrow" came upon...

"No Children Allowed" This, due to what the "prurient interest" group brought both parties...content and topics that were allegedly meant, only healthy if consumed by "mature" audiences...whereas once we are lured in, turns out to be quite different than was once promised, as in the theatre of the absurd! And, unless the doors are barred, find most, if not all, walking out of the theatre pre"maturely"...back to the lobby, where we, of course, find who else, but a bunch of lobbyists -- same the ones that the law-makers blame for creating this whole mess..."What a bunch of trash...where's the Metamucil...please, next time, spare me lurid details, don't waste my time...get right to the point...give me my money, back" OK, if that didn't sustain your attention, leave you wanting more here, try this on for size, a feast for your eyes...

NEXT: The ultimate strip tease (of Recess!)