HMCRA
I live next door to the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. It looks and sounds like any other elementary school, but with a few more self-actualizing chants (every morning). Yesterday I was walking back from the store and I noticed the playground was silent. I crossed the street to investigate and saw 50 kids on the ground. They were lying in a circle, perfectly still while a middle age man was calmly directing them,
"Feel yourself melting into the Earth. Feel the Earth rotating..spinning...carrying you with it through space..."
We didn't do yoga when I was in 3rd grade. We played Dodge-Ball or Kick the Catholic or something. As I was about to seriously roll my eyes, I saw a kid in the way back of the school yard, doing super-fast jumping jacks.
This was the kid who couldn't stay still and leave the others to meditate.
I really liked this kid. This was me.
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