Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Friday, 16 October 2015

Community Centre

My tutoring takes place in a community centre, and the community it is in the centre of is a challenging (or challenged) one, as illustrated this morning when just outside my tutorial room (aka a cupboard) there was a commotion with a man demanding the primary school give him his kids (now!) to take away as they had allegedly suffered some sort of violence or intimidation; meanwhile in the adjacent meeting room an old chap was complaining about many things including abusive girls and knife-wielding boys, but why he was telling this to the man from the credit union is a bit of a mystery – perhaps he wanted a loan to buy a shotgun or was coming up with an excuse for his arrears.

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