http://www.patriciawild.net Author of Way Opens: A Spiritual Journey Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en February 16, 2010, Bristol Superior Court, Taunton, MA: So here we are, in a gloomy, badly water-damaged, second-floor  courtroom: dozens of prospective jurors;  Nesto's supporters; the African American woman judge; Christopher Tarrant, the prosecutor; Joseph Krowski, Nesto's attorney; the court recorder; three bailiffs and Nesto Monell, himself. As the interminable, mysterious, and ... http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/03/march-10-2010-february-16-2010-whats-the-metaphor/ Bristol County Superior Courthouse in Taunton. http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/03/march-9-2010-setting-the-scene/ [How Prosecutor Christopher Tarrant would begin many sentences at Nesto Monell's trial, February 16 - February 19, 2010, Taunton, MA ] Is it fair to say that after the factories and mills of Bristol County shut down, drug-dealing became the next best way to make a living in  Brockton, New Bedford ... http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/03/march-8-2010-is-it-fair-to-say/ I'm sitting across from a curly-haired, older woman, completely dressed in black, who receives a phone call just as the train leaves Boylston. She says something in rapid-fire Spanish then, closing her cell phone, begins to weep. She pulls a Kleenex out out her bag, blows her nose, wipes her ... http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/03/march-5-2010-on-the-green-line/ February 13th: Watching the news re Haiti with my son-in-law in his living room: The NYC-based television announcer begins many of her sentences with: "You can imagine. . . " Well, no, I can't. Warm, safe, well-fed and American, no, sorry, I cannot imagine how this earthquake impacts the people of the ... http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/02/february-15-2010-nyc-4/ [Note: These stories happened while I was staying in Brooklyn for much of January. As with much of this blog, these stories deal with race.] January 9, 2010, Brooklyn Museum: My dear friend Lynne has taken the train from Boston early this morning so that she and I can go to the ... http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/02/february-8-2010-new-york-city-story-3/ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/books/03book.html?pagewanted=2&hp http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/02/february-3-2010-wow/ January 8, 2010, Greenwood Park, Brooklyn: My grandson Dmitri arranges clumps of icy snow  in the dead-middle of the paved, spacious, open area of the park: "You're building an igloo," I say. He looks at me quizzically. So I realize he doesn't know what an igloo is. When we return to his ... http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/02/february-2-2010-new-york-city-story-2/ [I've been in Brooklyn for the part 3 1/2 weeks tending grandchildren. Here's the first of 11 stories, most of them having to do with race, from my NYC experience.] January 7th, Park Slope, Brooklyn, about 9am: It's really, really cold, I'm staying in a wonderful apartment with iffy lighting and I've ... http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/01/january-29-2010-new-york-city-story-1/ I'm off to Brooklyn for 3 weeks to be an extra pair of arms for my 2 grandchildren—and their laundry.  So, no new posts for 28 days. But when I return. . . http://www.patriciawild.net/2010/01/january-3-2009-happy-new-yearfyi/