Have just returned from trip to Brooklyn, had a very good time, only to read about the many shootings that took place in Brooklyn and Manhattan last night, and the young woman killed when a car plowed into her group in Seattle. Very, very sad. Perhaps good news is not relevant, but here it is anyway.
My friend Riley and I agreed to meet in Brooklyn this afternoon. Riley is a graduate of Friends from the class of 15. Last Sunday I ventured into Brooklyn, but not since then. A little anxious when I left, but the subway ride into Brooklyn on the 3 was very direct (there was at the most, three people in the car for the whole ride) and Riley and I met outside BAM (now closed, unfortunately, even the bathrooms). A few blocks east on Lafayette we found a coffee shop and hung out there for about 45 minutes. Good conversation, mostly going over memories we had of other students from Friends whom we both knew. After that took a short walk around Fort Greene---then Reilly headed home to cook dinner for his parents and brother in Park Slope, and while I thought I might go out to Bushwick and see if Cobra Club was open--maybe hunt down some of my barista friends there. But when Riley left, the sun was beating down on me, so I figured that I should probably return to the upper west side. Which is what I did--got on the 2 at Atlantic Avenue---it moved very fast, and had as my companion a really well written story by Deborah Eisenberg. Part of a book of short stories by this author---I hope to read the rest of them soon.
Yesterday morning I completed Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City. Really glad that I read it--it really packs a wallop---forces one to consider how to "fix" the glaring inequities that exist in the poor black neighborhoods of Baltimore. Wes Moore (the book's author) lives with his family in Baltimore now---its in his hands to start the process of empowerment.Would like to help anyway that I can--will see how this evolves.
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