The Maroon Vol. 2… No. 27 Friday, April 8, 2022
“Bringing us all to a place we don't want to lose."
Observer: 2nd Booster
Macky’s New York: The Face That Launched A Thousand Buses
William Peay: Tales From The Wood…
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame: Save The Date: Nov. 5th 2022
Dr. Anne Robinson: Did You Know…
M + A NYC: Mighty Are We As One
James Stroker: Hope Coach
Jim Schoneman: Rock Hound
Siobhan Crann Winograd: Around The Village
Jeff Meyers: Splendid Night
Observer
2nd Booster
(from Henry V, spoken by King Henry)
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Today I going for my second booster shot. As a favorite doctor of mine quipped not too long ago, “it’s not really a vaccine if we have to keep getting boosted.” I was getting ready to see him this past Monday when he called me to cancel our appointment. He had come down with pneumonia, for which he had been vaccinated, as well as for Covid.
I keep thinking this pandemic is going to end soon but first hand stories of Long Covid make me believe our current, strange state of affairs will linger a bit longer.
I’m lucky. My wife less so. She has to face unmasked college students and colleagues, who flaunt their newly rediscovered freedom by acting like she is not immunocompromised. She wears a mask in her poorly ventilated office two days a week, and counsels students via Zoom just as like she does from home the other two days she’s contracted for.
CUNY, the City University of New York, has shown a complete insensitivity and provided an impossible set of deferment requirements for tenured faculty seeking to work from home full-time. All CUNY has to do now is provide some highly stylized singing and dancing to make this Kabuki complete. It is truly grating on our nerves, but we both know she is providing an essential service in caring for the mental health of these young college students.
We’re simply taking this travail one day at a time, while we wait for news about whether or not my wife’s workload will return to four days a week on campus this coming autumn term.
Macky’s New York
Matthew Cortellesi Photography
April 6, 2022 - Midtown
The Face That Launched A Thousand Buses
I've stared at this mannequin head in the window everyday wgike i wait for the crosstown bus to take me to work - today...ad the rain blew sideways...she seem particularly happy to be inside.
Shot on 57th street just west of 7th Avenue looking north with Brooklyn Diner neon in south facing reflection.
Time 810am.
#ny1pic
William Peay
Tales From The Wood…
Just saw this on Esposito's page...
RHS 1960
RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Save The Date: November 5, 2022
Visit The RHS Athletic Hall Of Fame
Did You Know…
Did you know a new law mandates that every Board Of Education (BOE) in NJ must include a student representative? The bill’s sponsors wrote:
“There is great power and value to having student voices represented on school boards. Not only does it create an opportunity for civic engagement and leadership, but it also generates greater accountability among the adults for the broader impacts of their decision-making. At the end of the day, student feedback is essential when considering policies and issues that will directly impact them, so it is only just and in true democratic-fashion they be afforded a seat at the table.”
If it were up to the students at RHS, a later school start time would have been in place over a decade ago when students did their own survey and 95% said they wanted a later start time, most indicating that 8:30 would be optimal. They were spot-on. Several years later, in 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics put out their policy statement saying that adolescent students should not start school before 8:30. Since then, the students have written articles in the RHS High Times, presented at HSA meetings, and made public comments at BOE meetings demonstrating their knowledge of the science, research, and evidence supporting the change. They have recently formed an organization RHS Tired Teens to advocate for a later school start time and already have over 1000 names on a petition “…because, let’s be real, we’re tired of being tired.”
M + A NYC
Mighty Are We As One
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Thinking of how this Maya Angelou quote applies to Cory Booker the other day near the end of Judge Kentanji Brown’s final testimony, after grueling and hostile questioning, telling her “You are my star. You are my harbinger of hope... This country is getting better and better.”
James Stroker
Jim Schoneman
Rock Hound
We got dumped on again last night. This is what the river looks like today.
Siobhan Crann Winograd
Around The Village
Grab & Go Spots update!!
So tonight these 13 highly successful spots were discussed during the council meeting. After some fairly frustrating discussion, the council was divided 2 strong yes (Sedon and Perron) and 2 hold outs (Knudsen and Reynolds). Vagianos recused.
Problem is with a divided council the issue did not move forward to the next meeting and we are out of scheduled meetings for this month before they expire (GG spots lapse 4/30).
There was some suggestion of a future special meeting (no date or commitment provided) I reminded the whole meeting to expressly ask the topic be included next week but my request was not acknowledged.
Jeff Meyers
Splendid Night
It was a splendid night
So I invited them over
Steaks spitting away
On the fire pit flames
We embraced, my
Pleistocene ancestors and I
While wood frogs gently quacked
And robins sang evening away
From the radiant tips of pines
They complimented me on my dog
As he watched from the lawn above
I could see they were both impressed
At how tame he was
But at the same time dismayed
I wanted to warn them
About the new things
The cars and the trucks
The flat screen TVs
The computers
But I knew better
Than to tell them
How the phones
And the satellites
Had stolen the stars
From the eyes of
The young people
Not having the heart,
I kept that all
My own, sad secret