today in

south bronx---another trip to tutor Jhennifer. Enjoyed the tutoring, but during the ride there by bus and waiting at the site where Southern Boulevard and Westchester Avenue intersect,conceived this short story---but can I write it? This was an old Jewish neighborhood in the early fifties, then began to change quickly....how quickly....how can one see the last Jewish person in the neighborhood, how can one understand the confusion, despair, fear they must have experienced by the arrival of the Puerto Rican community....Or did they.....? Only the tutoring brings me back, this is not like my trips to Brooklyn, far more pastorale....yes, the walk up New York avenue was great----stimulating, as were the other walks in Ditmas Park and around Boerum Hill, where Sarah lives. Today more tutoring this afternoon, tomorrow, relax a bit. Still, wonder if writing the short story is possible, the spring and summer could have some terrible and illuminating prospects....must live them through.......