Re-entry after ALA-NO

Those of my peers more wired than I have been blogging in real time about their trip to New Orleans for American Library Association's annual convention. The impact of the trip is still being processed--it was not your typical professional convention. The city is battered and slowly recovering--an indomitable spirit that warmly welcomed us despite formidable constraints, not least of all an obstructionist governmental structure. More details may come later, including a food-ography.

Re-entry after these things is usually difficult. Sessions discuss best practices, not mediocre practices executed in a horrible bureaucracy, and vision instead of reality. Indeed it is about making vision reality, so I need to remind myself that I shouldn't get discouraged after coming down from the mountain. I get an image of someone leaning into the wind, coat pulled up toward the face, yet still moving forward. And hopefully not alone.