I had a sweet day doing little things; shopping at the Coop, listening to a show about Cuba on WBAI, taking a quick break in a new cafe, playing shakuhachi, and visiting a friend
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My first year living in the Slope was 1984, so I'm not a real old-timer, but it still makes me sad whenever I go back there to see some of the changes. Most of all the way that the mix of people has now tilted so far toward the wealthy, even in those pockets of the neighborhood that remained mixed and ungentrified through most of the boom years, like the streets between 3rd and 4th Ave, or between 12th and 18th streets ...
It's great, though, that you're thinking about how to set up a practice that includes the Park Slope old-timers -- healing the neighborhood while you heal the neighbors.
Yeah, the changes must be even more obvious to you when you visit having lived here years ago.
I'm doing research into a group called Working Class Acupuncture. They manage to have a really good income with a sliding scale of $15 - $35 and high volume. I think I can do something similar.
Oooh! I just clicked on the ink below. They sound amazing!
I'm glad you have a good model for what you want to do. And it's in Portland! I know Portland a little -- we have family there -- and it's oddly similar to Brooklyn, in its transition over the past 20 years from working class industrial small city to hipster haven. So maybe that's a good sign: if Portland can support them, the Slope can support you.
Aren't they cool? I'd really love to visit their clinic sometime. And their system makes sense, too. I want to have some kind of hybrid practice, incorporating a single community space and a sliding-scale, but also have the flexibility to do some more sophisticated protocols and modalities that I'm learning now. I think I can do it, too. I just have to work it out *
Park Slope is so sad and beautiful. I am close enough to some of the younger generation there, who don't remember the way New York was in general - that is, the City as well as Blyn- to kind of appreciate their joy in it. It sure is a gorgeous and delicious place to spend money. But I also wind up heartbroken and enraged. This must be infinitely more true for you.
1. Thanks! I just want to be able to treat the people I grew up with (and people like them), without making them "special cases."
2. They weren't allowed to eat on the job, but they had to because they got almost no breaks. Sandwiches were the easiest thing to eat on the sly. They could hide them in their laps.
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It's great, though, that you're thinking about how to set up a practice that includes the Park Slope old-timers -- healing the neighborhood while you heal the neighbors.
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I'm doing research into a group called Working Class Acupuncture. They manage to have a really good income with a sliding scale of $15 - $35 and high volume. I think I can do something similar.
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I'm glad you have a good model for what you want to do. And it's in Portland! I know Portland a little -- we have family there -- and it's oddly similar to Brooklyn, in its transition over the past 20 years from working class industrial small city to hipster haven. So maybe that's a good sign: if Portland can support them, the Slope can support you.
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They have a low sliding scale fee for patients and manage to have a good income through high volume. They've given me lots of ideas.
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2. Why did you have to sneak sandwiches into the sweatshops? W
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Park Slope is so sad and beautiful. I am close enough to some of the younger generation there, who don't remember the way New York was in general - that is, the City as well as Blyn- to kind of appreciate their joy in it. It sure is a gorgeous and delicious place to spend money. But I also wind up heartbroken and enraged. This must be infinitely more true for you.
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2. They weren't allowed to eat on the job, but they had to because they got almost no breaks. Sandwiches were the easiest thing to eat on the sly. They could hide them in their laps.
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