Headed out this afternoon, 11 days, returning…..? Blogging tbd.

When I return, I hope for riding plans in October to be firmed up definitively.

Cheers.

P.S. (for Marni, and others, and me):

In the inner-city schools these classrooms are not simply the front lines of education: They’re the front lines of democracy. No matter what happens in a child’s home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there’s no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything. So long as the teacher is energized and highly skilled and her personal sense of exhilaration in the company of children is not decapitated by a Dickensian agenda.