Things I assumed would stand, if not forever, at least long enough for my grandchildren to see them

1. The Old Man of the Mountain
2. The Constitution of the United States of America

I am so completely stuck for class prep for tomorrow

I have no idea what I want to teach tomorrow. I have no idea what I should do, what project I should plan, or anything like that. I have absolutely no idea.

So, what would you teach if you had eight six-year-olds for two and a half hours to teach about Judaism?

Some more thoughts about the Old Man of the Mountain

The governor of New Hampshire wants to rebuild the thing, now that it's collapsed. As far as I'm concerned, if PEOPLE build the sucker, it doesn't count any more. You do that, it just becomes a piece of self-indulgent crap, like Mount Rushmore. No, the special thing about the Old Man of the Mountain was that it was a natural formation. And, because of that, as Daniel Webster said,

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades.
Shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe;
Jewelers, a monster watch;
Even a dentist hangs out a gold tooth;
But up in the Franconia Mountains God Almighty
Has hung out a sign to show that, in New England,
He makes men.

The other thing about the face was that, apparently, the Indians who lived in the area had no name for the outcropping, because it only shows up from one viewing angle, and, apparently, none of them had noticed it before.

So, I just have this image in my head of the white explorer, mapping the area, talking to the locals, getting their names for the local things, and he points to the Great Stone Face, and says, "So, what do you call that?"

The Indian says, "Call what? That's a mountain. I already told you that."

"No, no, the face."

"The face? What face?"

"That one, right there -- look!"

"Oh, cool! There's a fuckin' FACE in the side of that mountain! Wait 'till I show that to everybody!"