Computer Class Day
Today is Monday. It was the first day of Spring term at Haslett Community Education. I had an afternoon class of new students learning basics for 2 hours. Then I had a reunion of sorts. Students from both my afternoon and evening classes from last term, joined together. There was only one new person in the list of 14 who signed up.
I love these people. They are good, kind, smart, and are learning computer skills when nobody made them do it. Just because they want to learn. They check up on each other outside of class… one man had heart surgery five weeks ago, and another woman from his class reported today that he’s doing great and even golfing already. When one woman couldn’t make it to class another time, the woman who sits near her in class volunteered to drop by and deliver the handout of the week. Good people, I say.
I was so happy to see them again after a month away. It melted my heart. Hugs all around.
What else can I say? Life is rich when we have good people to spend our time with. You know? I’m as rich as a woman can get. Friends, sweetheart and students… knitting as well as computer. And all the great people who let me teach for them… two community ed departments and five yarn shops. All of them, they are the best.
In other great relationship news, my Mom is due back from Florida this week. I’m excited to see her again, and glad that this year she will be here for Mother’s Day. She has one lonely asparagus stalk in her garden awaiting her arrival, I checked today.
Speaking of great people in my life, here’s a photo of Art and Marlene, with Art’s “new” Heftone Bass. They asked to buy one over a year ago. This used one came up for sale, and they snatched it up. It’s so colorful, just like they are (my Heftone has a white drum head, check this one out).
Marlene is the person who taught me to use commercial dyes on wool… she’s a spinner and knitter and graphic artist (she illustrated a knitting book long before I knew her), and she has painted one orange wall and one purple wall at least, in their home. She’s at least as excited about color as I am.
Art is a musician and a true artist with gardening and plants. He designed the Grass Garden at MSU that I showed in a blog post from August 2003. It’s at Farm Lane and Mt. Hope, at the turfgrass center, if you are in the Lansing, Michigan area. It’s particularly beautiful in August.