Just finished reading everyone in our Social Work classes posts. Lots of good information there and many moving and sometimes insightful stories and perspectives. I appreciate the work you put in to them - the interviews and the posts since they are two very different things. Several of you went into some detail and depth with the posting and I encourage all of you to head that direction. And some of you included a personal 'introduction' or 'reflection' about the experience at the beginning or end of your posts on the interview(s). I ask that you all do your version of that. As you read each other's blogs, you'll see how those reflections/introductions really set the scene, deepen the experience of reading, give us a more dynamic sense of the experience which will prove useful as we move ahead. Reading my post now, if some of you would like to go back to your posted interview and add more information, please do. And most haven't posted their second interview yet. Please do as soon as possible as there are so many insights, experiences, stories and wisdoms we haven't begun to gather. Police officers, elected officials, bankers, shopkeepers, ministers, young people, immigrants, teens...whose voice do you think we should make sure to include?

So much change, so much the same. New Art At Work blog to match up with 'Hearts, Minds & Homes' project and the University of Southern Maine class Paula and I are teaching this semester. More to come, just getting warmed up. Excited to read everyone's blogs after their interviews.