Saturday, November 16, 2013

Is that you....

cityboy. He goes down to Transition center on Canal street to speak his peace about better education in the poorer schools. Makes the video, but Oy! Is that what you look like? Face is kind of old, isn't it---not anywhere near your vision of yourself, but still perhaps the vision will win out! Nevertheless, dissappointing to see an old man's face---can't possibly be yours, cityboy...this vital, energetic being that moves from place to place, nevertheless, people seem to find me attractive, per se---so where do we go from here...?
Last night, went up to Harlem for Maysles Cinema showing of Continuing Ed, fascinating film about trying to teach poor students---high school founded on compassionate principal, doesn't always work needs some pruning, nice way of me coming to terms to with my own vision of myself as a teacher of poor children.
Very important movie, like My Brooklyn, LIke Zoned Out from several years ago.
Today, after tutoring Kyla, probably go out to Brooklyn to visit Austen, this will be hard to negotiate, since L train does not run into Brooklyn at all this weekend, same goes for tomorrow, on my journey to South Fourth---so there will be a need for inventiveness as we use the other trains and buses to move around, and of course on foot, just took a nice walk (today is a beautiful fall day!) from Canal to Leroy Street and body seems to be working well, after two days of being fairly tired.
Tonight, Debate Society work in progress, wonder if I will meet anyone there I know, should be a number of
"usual suspects" in the audience, afterwards not sure if I will go out or what.
Monday, back at Friends for at least a half a day.....

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