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If you see one documentary this year, or in the next five, see this one, The Future of Food. We saw it yesterday and I was humbled and enlivened to see a problem illuminated along with a solution. The documentary has the tone of someone who sat through Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 and decided that it just was not as an effective way to get dialogue and movement around an issue as it could.

Deborah Koons Garcia, perhaps in response to Michael Moore's lackluster ability to highlight problems of our free-market economy and come off sounding hollow without following through on telling us really what we can do ( besides emailing our senators or protesting someone or something). The Future of Food does a fantastic job of illustrating the problem inherent in Genetically Modified Organisms as a basis for food, that their impacts on the environment haven't been researched enough, are supported and shoved down the world's throat by the one of the largest (monopolistic) agricultural conglomerates on the planet (Monsanto), the negative impacts on the farmer's key ability to harvest and reuse their own seed, and some steps we can and are already taking to reduce and hopefully reverse the impacts and potential impacts of GMOs on our lives and global food chain.

by the way, it's spring!

Light can do wonderful things.

I wandered around bed-sty and ft. greene today. It was rainy. I went to a few open houses for grins. Somehow a lot of little things stood out at me today.

This past weekend was one of those get out and see the town weekends. On Saturday afternoon I headed over to see the 826NYC.org's location and Brooklyn's Superhero Supply store. There was a book fair and superhero competition although I didn't see too many superheros.

The ones that were there seemed a lot shorter than I imagined. Maybe comics does something to you.

I've gotten word from an insider that the Book Fair will be extended to next weekend as well. So, for all you Brooklynites, New Yorker's head on over to buy some good books for cheap to help support 826NYC.org

London bridge is ...in Arizona...is that right?

Not to mention it's probably a bad idea to set the pier on fire.

Because so many of you have asked, "where did that horrible image on your website come from?". Now you know, maybe.

Tate London from the Inside-Out May 2003

I have been thinking and semi-researching becoming a teacher. Coincidentally, Tracie and I went to see this movie yesterday.

Well, perhaps not coincidentally, we've both been talking about teaching for a number of months. Tracie had picked the film and I knew nothing about it, besides that it was set in rural France and had to do with a teacher.

Tracie's deciding on whether or not she is going to go to a workshop for teaching this summer, and I am pondering whether I am cut from the right cloth to teach. Or more importantly if that is my next step in life. I am looking into the NYC Teaching Fellows. I have an email sitting in my inbox from about a month and a half ago that I need to formulate a response and send in with my application (which may in fact be too late for next summer). I am afraid of screwing some kids up, and afraid of not knowing enough to teach anyone. I'm feeling lame in other words.

I've been working at this organization for over 3 years, as an IT professional (whatever that means) and it seems it's time to have more direct daily contact with people, and people I can benefit for that matter.

The movie was poignant for me in that it reminded that I can do this, and should do this, not because it's time to move on, but it is time to make the change I seek.

Perhaps it is time to plan a little and... do, do, do?

I recommend this movie to all of you out there. If not, for the appreciation of teaching, then simply for the appreciation of life and more importantly childhood.