Wiggling Jello – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png Wiggling Jello – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 Land Ownership and the Foundations of Democracy, Part Two (Westward, Ho!) https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/land-ownership-and-foundations-democracy-part-two-westward-ho/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:37:48 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/land-ownership-and-foundations-democracy-part-two-westward-ho/ My son would fill his tray with everything he could fit in, including that cafeteria classic – brightly colored, cubed Jello. My daughter was much pickier, but inevitably she chose the wiggly cubes as well. The boy would snarf down his selections in minutes; the girl would take hours if we let her. 

It is worth noting that she didn’t usually eat the Jello. 

She liked to look at it. The table would inevitably get jostled a bit, or otherwise nudged, and the Jello would wiggle. It’s what Jello does. She loved that. And, to be fair, that’s just as valid a use for Jello as any other. (Just because something is edible doesn’t mean it serves no other function – otherwise, neither houseplants nor family pets would be around long.) 

But that’s not how my son saw it.

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