The DN

1  I just read yesterday's DN.

2  It that had landed with a rubber band around it on my driveway, I would have picked it up and thrown it back to the paper boy. 

3   What was I smokin'?

4   Oh, bother. 

5   I talked about the Who, and Sally Simpson, and its origin.

6   I read from a chapter entitled Amazing Journey from Pete Townshend's Who I Am.

7   So it was moving along, kind of like driving on a rocky dirt road.

8   And then...

9   The District.

10  The Teachers.

11  The Staff.

12  The Parents.

13   The Community.

13   They stood before me like fading cardboard cutouts. 

---->   Focus in: there's a Board Meeting. It's tonight. We are to show up en masse. You are invited to attend. It begins at 4 p.m. It technically begins at 4 p.m. Here is the address:

830 N. Capitol Ave. San Jose, CA 95133. (408) 347-5000.

If nothing else, you can bet that if an enormous amount of people show up, a voice will be heard. As a taxpayer I am outraged they haven't settled this yet. 

15   So I'll go.

16   I'm doing the right thing.

17   I'm going to be at the Board Meeting.

18   I feel I have no choice. 

19   What they will do is they will open the doors, drink water for around 45 minutes, then disappear, and then come out at leisure. 

20  Their modus: take time. Stretch it out. Don't get to the real issues until everyone has tired out and gone home. 

21  NVM.

22  Now I see what I was smokin'.

23  Impatience. It began pumping through me. 

24  The entire District has its eyes on this, each school, each community, each janitor, each Principal, each student.

25  Sorry if I left you out. You start naming good people in education it's a long list. 

26  So I'll stay positive. 

27  I just want it over. I want grown-ups deciding things. This should have been settled months ago. My feeling is this: the District is not bargaining in good faith. If they were, this would be done. They have the resources to end it. It is unconscionable. Just my opinion.

28  I'll have to be patient. 

29   

30   I think that's it for today.

31   At least for now. I will be there.

32   I will be there.

33   Moving On, Part One: I would like to send a prayer out  to all the people who have recently been through crises. It seems a lot. I just want you to know that we're all praying for each other, and I feel what you are going through.

32  Stay peaceful; it works. Families and friends cry with you, but we also laugh, because you need that strength. So much going on! Stay strong; I love all of you. 

33  November. Wow. Fallen leaves, spiritual skies.

34  Take care.

35   Peace.

~H~