Mesopotamia and Memories
I noticed signs recently when I was in downtown Toronto, for the Mesopotamia exhibition at the ROM . I wanted to go! So that week I said to Tori when she came upstairs to help me prepare for dinner guests, "I would love to take a day off work and take you and Tippy somewhere during the holidays; would you like that?" Excited eyes, and a big smile answered louder than words. "But where?" "Well," I said casually, "There is the ROM. They have an exhibit on Mesopotamia, which is known as "the cradle of civilization," at the moment--or," I added; because part of me felt that I was offering them a frog on a plate for lunch; "we could go anywhere else, if you prefer;" . I suggested that she and her sister Tippy, Google, "Places to go in Ontario," and said that I would take them anywhere they wanted--the main thing was to go somewhere together. To my delight and surprise, a few days later they sa...