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Welcome to Arts and Ideas in the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore, your daily
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podcast briefing of the goings ons, ins, and around arts and ideas Sudbury School.
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So today, and I don't know if you can hear it, but it is raining.
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There's a nice little pitter patter on the tent surface.
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It rained a lot, so it's a little swampy here under the tent, although I'm in a relatively
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dry spot here, so that's kind of nice.
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So we couldn't do JC under the tent, so instead we did it in the library, had the windows
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open, and we were able to keep people distanced from one another, but we had to kind of keep
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people not involved in the cases out.
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We were broadcasting on Discord, so people joined us from other rooms, so that was promising.
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It was a good sort of, you know, test of what we can do with cold weather stuff as that
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becomes more of a problem.
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Today is actually the first day of intense rain that we've had this year, so we've been
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kind of lucky in that fashion.
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Not that I'm saying I don't like the rain.
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I love the rain!
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But, yeah.
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We also had a special school meeting today at one o'clock.
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There was, well, fields totally soaked in and so forth, and some more rain predicted
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for tomorrow, and so I decided to move the Halloween celebrations to Monday and to officially
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get approval for having online students here.
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It's questionable whether we need that or not.
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We debated whether there should be any kind of time constraint on that.
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We said no.
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And then we also allowed for alumni to come on Monday as well.
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There was also a time constraint on that thought about, and then that was also said no.
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And in fact, you know, part of the argument against the time was, of course, that some
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of our alumni are actually doing stuff during the day and they could come at the end.
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And then it also occurred to us that having them come when there's fewer people here is
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actually a good thing, so it didn't really make sense to exclude them from the later
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times when there are fewer people here.
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So anyway, so online students and alumni are welcome to attend on Monday for Halloween.
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Alumni are prohibited from being in the building, the main building, just like we prohibit parents
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from doing so, so they can be out in the field or outside anywhere.
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And they can also use the carriage house for the bathroom.
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So they don't get to see the haunted house in the art room, but that's what it means
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to be an alumni.
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You've got to take that sacrifice.
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The online students can use the main building.
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They are school meeting members and, you know, on Monday, for example, they could all decide
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to be in person and, well, now they'd be in person.
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So that didn't make any sense to really restrict them.
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All right.
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So that was a special school meeting.
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So hopefully on Monday, people will be in costume and celebrating Halloween.
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I'm sure there'll be a number of people who will be in costume tomorrow, but hopefully
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they will be on Monday as well.
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A number of people have actually been in costume throughout the week.
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All right.
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So today is -- oh, and there was also article club today.
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Guess that went well.
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We had a couple alumni actually participate as well because, well, why not?
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And they just really enjoy the channel.
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I guess the thing.
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So that was interesting.
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I could only hear part of it because it's at 11 and there was JC, but whatever.
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And then, let's see, tomorrow, well, I don't actually know what's going to happen tomorrow.
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I guess, yeah, just hopefully a free-form day.
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I think the haunted house might be open for people to explore on Friday if they like.
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Again, our main Halloween celebration will be on Monday.
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Again, no food for that.
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All right.
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Tip of the week Thursday.
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So here's my tip of the week.
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So as mentioned, it is Halloween coming up, but it's been a particularly hard year.
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Our community is split.
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Some are online.
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Some are in person.
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And others are simply not attending here anymore, and they might come back when the pandemic
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is done.
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There's been a lot of deaths and suffering and economic destruction this year.
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And so I, for one, am not really doing a costume.
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I know people don't believe me, but I really am not.
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I mean, I've got a couple of, like, really kind of, like, lame joke stuff that I might
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stick on, but no shape or form am I doing a costume.
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And I think that's okay.
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I think it's okay this year to really not do a costume, to say, "You know what?
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I don't have the brain space for it.
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I just can't do it."
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But I think it's also okay, perfectly fine, to wear a costume if that's what you want
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to do.
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Everybody deals with the trauma of this year in different ways.
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The most important thing is just to come together and celebrate one another and know that together
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we'll get through this.
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You know, if that means not wearing a costume, then that means not wearing a costume, and
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I hope that everybody respects that, and I hope people also respect people wearing costumes
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and having fun.
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It is whatever you make of it.
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Plus, my Tip of the Week Thursday is to show a little understanding for everybody involved.
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It's kind of important, particularly as we head into next week, and who knows what will
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happen then, but hopefully a lot of understanding and tolerance will be shown in far more measure
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than what we've been seeing lately, one can only hope.
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All right, well, on that chipper note, I'll talk to you all later.
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Bye-bye.