Today is the Friday before Spring Break. You’re looking down at your out-turned pockets, the international symbol for “no scratch.” Avoid wallowing in the ills of a homebound break and revel in the freedom of a considerably roomy weeklong schedule.But now you’re looking up with round, watery eyes asking, “How Mike? How can I enjoy myself without fat beats and sunny southern shores?”
Listen closely, poor masses. Empty pockets do not liken to an empty week or a shorthanded rumpus. This break can be more than the archetype, so if you’re out of cash and have had a fruitless planning period, let it die. Wait a second. Now let it phoenix into something worthwhile.
And it can start here, Cookeville, Tenn.
Dust off your bike. Mount that metal frame and coast through the warm weekend air. Cane Creek Park offers a great walking/biking trail that encircles the pond, ducks and the turtle-topped logs. About half-way around is one of Cookeville’s nicest sunset-spying spots.
Bring a book. Something you really love, a childhood favorite or a newfound gem will do. Rest in the sun-warmed grass by the open water where breezes can cross you. Keep in mind, taking a short nap outside with your book for shade does not make you a bum. It makes you a blissful, sunshine appreciator and hopefully a more relaxed you.
The open-ended opportunity that is Spring Break should allow for countless activities your schedule has been stifling.
Write a few lines. If you have an affinity for writing, express the release of academic stress in words on a page. Allow pent-up articulations to spread the expanses you have meant for them all semester.
Sing, play and dance. Those so inclined to sing jolly melodies, pick twangy tunes or shimmy and shake ought to let loose. The pedagogic ramblings of both beloved and detested professors have no current knots around your arms. If they are the kind of arms that wave in song, wave them. If they strum or pick, when better for them to formulate a song. And if you arms are the kind that joins your legs in untamed flailing, let them in the sun where people can see and be affected.
Get an eye full. A quiet gallery of local art can be a gratis cap on a broke-breaker’s day. A few local galleries are available through the week.
Dust off your bike
Mount that metal frame and coast through the warm weekend air. Cane Creek Park offers a great walking/biking trail that encircles the pond, ducks and the turtle-topped logs. About half-way around is one of Cookeville’s nicest sunset-spying spots.
Bring a book
Something you really love, a childhood favorite or a newfound gem will do. Rest in the sun-warmed grass by the open water where breezes can cross you. Keep in mind, taking a short nap outside with your book for shade does not make you a bum. It makes you a blissful, sunshine appreciator and hopefully a more relaxed you.
Sing, play and dance
Those so inclined to sing jolly melodies, pick twangy tunes or shimmy and shake ought to let loose. The pedagogic ramblings of both beloved and detested professors have no current knots around your arms. If they are the kind of arms that wave in song, wave them. If they strum or pick, when better for them to formulate a song. And if your arms are the kind that join your legs in untamed flailing, let them in the sun, where people can see and be affected.
Write a few lines
If you have an affinity for writing, express the release of academic stress in words on a page. Allow pent-up articulations to spread the expanses you have meant for them all semester.
Get an eye full
A quiet gallery of local art can be a gratis cap on a broke-breaker’s day. A few are available through the week:
Maddux A.R.T. Upstairs Gallery
Wayne Hogan Original Collage
9a-5p M-F
Co-Oper Art Gallery
Various Artists
11a-5p W-F
Joan Derryberry Art Gallery
Aaron Lee Benson Ceramics
through Mar. 13
Appallachian Center for Craft
Eliana Arenas Mixed Media
through Mar. 27
ACC Faculty Mixed Media
through April 14
