Y and I found Wage the Uglydoll on the ground below the tree where we had found him earlier this year. It had been some months since we had last visited him, and he must have fallen down at some point. I dusted him off and put him in a more secure position in the meeting place of several branches. Hopefully, he will enjoy this high and dry place in the sun a little better.
It’s hard for me to believe that it’s only been 10 years since I started teaching at City Tech in Brooklyn. My gray hair seems like a testament to it being far longer.
I’ve been able to accomplish a lot of things since landing in Brooklyn as evidenced by my CV and Teaching Portfolio. I’ve had the joy of teaching great students, and I’ve enjoyed the collegiality and comradery of excellent coworkers.
Some of the greatest hits of things that I’ve done–some alongside the best colleagues and others by myself–include:
There’s a lot left to do. What can I accomplish in the next 10 years?
Our tuxedo cat Mose enjoys the simple things in life–a toy mouse and twist tie.
Several streets in Carroll Gardens are bisected where the F and G subway lines escape their underground confinement and rise into the air for a short stretch between there and Park Slope. This is the end of one of those streets where the dead end sign hangs on the chain link fence above a brick wall. The roof of a subway train is tearing by from left to right at the bottom of the frame.
Y and I know this blue atlas cedar as “Big Tree Friend.” It grows somewhere in the middle of Green-Wood Cemetery. We walk around–turning here and there–until we eventually find it.
It has been growing in Green-Wood Cemetery for over 100 years–assuming it was planted soon after the death of the person it memorializes, Joseph Kinyoun (Nov. 25, 1860-Feb. 14, 1919). Its circumference is so large that I don’t think Y and I could join hands around it.
When you stand beneath it, it complete envelops you.
On a hot day, it’s a good friend to have shade you.
