We are in Duluth, MN this weekend for a baseball tournament in nearby Superior, Wisconsin. I will write more at some point about all my travels this summer. This post muses about the odd things one encounters in one’s travels.
Ironically, two days ago I wrote a 50-word short story about the tear-down of a haunted building. And then I came across this.
This is Superior High School, which is under renovation (evidently). But at first glance I thought immediately of war and devastation. I though perhaps someone had bombed the place.
This tear-down is stunning from all angles, with crumbled brick, concrete and rebar spilling from it like a gutted carcass.
Other metaphors came to mind, about how utterly messy life can be sometimes.
It made me realize we are always in some state between tear-down and renewal, and at points along the way — even as we build toward better things — it is not pretty.
Then I got curious about this school renovation. I researched it a bit, and it appears to be a multi-year $60 million dollar project that will be completed in 2019. What must it be like for the students whose entire high school experience is taking place in a construction zone? I’m sure Homecoming will be awesome.
Maybe I’m a bit maudlin because my own teenagers just turned 17 and are entering their senior year in a few weeks. Change is simultaneously good, fearsome and constant.
What do you think?
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