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  • Week One, Year Three

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    That summer went fast…Colorado, dancing poets, an abundance of ALFs, mountains, paint, scaffolding, writing, music…It was fantastic. I’m excited to have a regular rhythm to my weeks again, though. And to be back with our spectacular young people. Monday and Tuesday, Ryan and I were in the space to get it cleaned up. We were…

  • ALF Summer 2015: Week 1

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      I started this week super excited to be in Charlotte, North Carolina to meet new ALFs! I right away got a couple pieces of bad news about some friends, and I was worried about being able to hold a group’s energy while working through my sadness. But both because the group this year was…

  • Penultimate week of 2015

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    TheWeekTheWeekTheWeekTheWeek I spent a lot of time outside this week. On Tuesday, I went to Central Park with @douglasawesome and @failspy to play improv games all morning. On Wednesday, I gave @lillaw and @failspy a map of Red Hook and told them I’d meet them at Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies. They met @agilealfie and…

  • Kid Imagines the Final Battle Between Horace and Seth

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    Doing homework for my comic hero MOOC (Last week @douglasawesome!), I started researching Egyptian deities. I was talking with @thewitchqueen908 @shadowjack and @jacobcb about Isis, Orisis, Seth, and Horace, and @thewitchqueen908 asked whether Horace kills Seth. The internet (and Jack) wasn’t sure…apparently there are lots of different accounts of how the final battle between Horace…

  • Graduation Process Proposal

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    Back at the last assembly meeting, I committed to hold a series of discussions with kids–and open to parents–to elucidate a graduation process. The goal was to have a proposal ready for the the next assembly meeting (tomorrow), where it could be amended and [hopefully] approved so it can be presented officially in September. The…