Love-Crossed Stars

Happy (belated) Tanabata, everyone! American or Japanese, Christian or Jewish or atheist or agnostic or Rastafarian, whatever your religious or cultural traditions, I think we can all come together and enjoy a festival commemorating the annual convergence of Vega and Altair.

Apparently not enough of the kindergarteners wished for pleasant weather (which is, ahem, the traditional wish, OK?), because it rained like a mother here yesterday. Which, appropriately enough, drenched all of their paper wishes that we tied to bamboo shoots. It's OK, half of them were wishes to become goseija (Power Rangers) or Pretty Fresh Cure anyway. Also, in the picture cards we used to tell the students an English version of the Tanabata story, one of the pages said nothing but "Hikobuta was a Japanese cowboy." Man, why don't we have any American holidays that involve cowboys?

Jolly Star Festival, everyone!