Robert Coles, a 2000 Conversation Revisited
I am often a creature of habit. This does not necessarily translate to my blogging habits.
My Sunday evenings are also without ritual, making my NPR affiliate’s weekly broadcast of Krista Tippett’s Speaking of Faith a lovely - if infrequent - surprise. This week’s program featured a 2000 interview with Robert Coles; child psychologist, researcher, author and one of my favorite, favorite people in general. Coles’s research into the lives of children began in the desegregation of the schools in New Orleans. His body of work is big, and while it engages a lot of different areas, it presents a cumulative validation of what we can learn from children. Of what we can learn from process.
He wrote a book about Flannery O’Connor.
He founded DoubleTake, a Boston based photography magazine which documented the lives of regular people. In early 2003, Bruce Springsteen played a benefit for DoubleTake at the Somerville Theatre. Somehow, my father found himself with two tickets. He offered me one. I was a student at the time, living in New York. For reasons I can no longer recall, I decided that it would be irresponsible for me to take my dad up on his offer. This is my great regret in life.
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