Freedom

I am almost done with Barbara Hamby's poetry collection, and I'll be sorry when its over.  I suppose it is because she is about the same age as I am, and we have many reference points, that she never fails to inspire.  This poured out today.  So much on my mind!

It's about the music, always,

and today I look ahead and

find my way back to all those

things I've learned and all

the things I know can work and

music is involved, of course, it

has to be. Folkies to Hip Hop

eventually, without a doubt,

we can pump up the critical

thinking, we can see history come

alive, we can know its happening

now and quit kidding ourselves.

Those fairy tales were nice & we

can come back to them, but in 

the meantime, it's GO time, and 

we won't pussyfoot around. Earlier

this year I brought out the Town 

Project and now I'm looking at

the Writing Poetry unit and & seeing it

work and all that material

from before, all the things I've

done will connect together  into

a beautiful whole over the next

3 months -- maybe less. Either way,

we have it, we will dig in, we

will learn, we will see how all

things are connected and freedom

is the result.