Sometimes I have internal conflict over my desires and needs and those of the young people I spend my time with. I so desperately want the young people I work with to rise up and overthrow… everything. And most of…
Today we spent most of the day working on our houses in Prospect Park. It’s fascinating to me how simple the group’s needs and desires are– they simply want a place of their own to care for and develop and…
The morning started out being quite difficult. We couldn’t agree on what to do today. Ultimately, we all agreed that someone needed to make an executive decision for what to do each week. And so, we came up with a…
On Friday, I talked about needing to find the rhythm backbone of our community before we’re able to run wild. In contrast, this Tuesday Flying Squad group has predominantly survived a year together as community. We survived being outdoors in…
I wrote to a new parent tonight: “We had a bit of a weird day, really. But it was good. Flying Squad is a lot about people learning how to be with one another (a skill I so wish the…
Our day… We went to Fort Greene Park and played Friday the 13th and tag and other games. Charlie explained how to play Friday the 13th in this video: Oh, and by request, here’s a photo of Solomon eating…
Today the Tuesday Flying Squad decided to go to Governors Island (Roosevelt Island was a close second, inspired by seeing Portland TFS’s tram posts from last week… ) Along the way we played a game of Fairplay where we freed…
Today was the first ever Friday Flying Squad! We met in the library and talked a bit about what we want Fridays to look like and what social justice issues are important to us (the focus of Friday’s squad is…
Today was the first day of Tuesday Flying Squad Brooklyn, year two. We started out with all of the original members of the Flying Squad from last year minus one and picking up one new member. We started out in…