"As the dirt turns"

Mary and I just got back from a celebration for the completion of the 3rd bcWorkshop home, 4523 Congo, the Garrett's new, and might I add, beautiful home. During the celebration, most every speaker mentioned the importance of revitalization and building community, on small-scale Congo Street and large-scale City of Dallas. To bcWorkshop, those 3 homes(and 3 to come) represent, and quite noticeably, the amazing revitalization of historic Congo Street: a street where "People come and don't want to leave," remarked Vernessia Garrett. And so bcWorkshop has made staying on Congo an appealing option. As the dirt turns across from our Jubilee Community Center, I cross my fingers that the building that will stand there will represent that very same revitalization and pride to the Jubilee community that bcWorkshop's art represents on Congo.

P.S. Schmoldt has made a ski mountain across the street, has it ever snowed in May in Dallas? I might just throw on my snowboard anyway...

When are they going to demolish 917 Bank?

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. "
James Baldwin

As we meandered back and forth between the one remaining Jubilee house and our new home in the church(our calorie burner on a daily basis), the Jubilee staff and community kept asking each other, "When are they going to bring in the bulldozer and demolish the 917 House?" It took us until Thursday to realize what we were seeing was the 917 House being demolished. No bulldozer, no big show, just piece by piece and nail by nail, the House came down; that's recycling and LEED certification for you. It came down like it went up, quietly, thoughtfully, steadily, with love.

Now it sits barely a shell of house; a passerby would be unaware if it was going up or coming down, but we know, because we've been waiting patiently. Construction has begun and this time next year holds promise of a new chapter for Jubilee.

Martha keeps walking around saying "Ay, los recuerdos, oh the memories". She's right; that house wasn't Jubilee because it was named so, we all made it Jubilee.