an idea batting around

I'm cleaning up the house and came across one of my little notebooks. A few pages back, it has notes for this idea:


Slush Festival
To be held in mid-March

New Englanders getting together to make the best of that bane of existence: SLUSH

Where:
Gov't Center an ideal location (very slushy on that plaza)
Davis Square likely more interest

Activities:

• Tubs o' Slush (to stomp in)
  
• ... and for $5 we will warm-air blow-dry your toes after :-)
  
• Shoveling Race (snow/slush)
  
• Ice Slip (a gently-sloping ramp, narrow with padded rails)
  
• Find-Your-House-Keys in a Snowbank/Slushbucket game (like bobbing for apples)
  
• Art Project: complaint letters to Mother Nature (or the Weather Man, or the DPW)
  
• snow-ball toss (like bean-bag toss) Could even use white beanbags as a stand-in. What would targets be?
  
• Stilt-Walk (the short blocks-on-strings kind) thru deep slush... just a walk? a relay race? Pick up a ring & bring it back across?

Vendors who might be interested:

• knitters of brightly colored warm things
  
• suncatchers (to counteract the gloom of slush)
  
• yak-traks
  
• hot cocoa (Linda @ Best Friends Cocoa?, Taza? )
  
• Gilly's stilt school?
  
• DPW to talk about clearing sidewalks and drains

Music:

• energetic polka music?
  
• ENSMB?

So, what do yall think?

a poem about water

Also in that notebook, this poem I composed:

  
  I
  am a river.
  My banks
  hold me in.
  But I flow,
  I flow.

  In the sea I am free.
  In the sea I am salty,
  Salty like your blood
  Salty like your tears
  Salty like the urine
    of little boys
      who piss
       in the ocean.

One more from the files

This is the ingredient list from a really good airplane cookie I was served on a Delta flight. Someday I should see if I can buy them, or recreate a recipe.

"Gourmet Center BISCOFF"
BISCOFF BISCUITS INGREDIENTS
Wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oils (contains one or more soy bean oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, palm oil), soy flour, brown sugar, leavening (sodium bicarbonate), salt, spice (cinnamon).
Product of Belguim
"Phone or Write for Nutritional Information"