1. Took my mom and Bruce on a tour of new school, St. Francis Prep.
2. Teaching Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool at LaGuardia, having a revelation about the poem, a 180 degree turn, after 20 years of thinking I knew it. Then reading the best of the class's Golden Shovel poems. Kids blowing my mind with their poems. Then looking at Keats with them. Lots of one on one conversations in the room about KEATS!!! with kids that don't normally read anything. Looking them in the eye as I talk to them. Learning from them. Thou still unravished bride of quietness. Ideal class.
3. Watching both my girls, 6 and 8, erupt in peals of laughter over dinner.
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