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Pluses and Minuses Since Friday

• Loss: No more bonus stimulation of part-time graduate school.
• Gain: Columbia-blue regalia ownership, and opportunity to don the ensemble for graduation on 15-16 May.
• Loss: Friend Riva being in metro-New York for just a few days.
• Gain: Friend Riva teaching me about pouncing as we toured Dürer and Beyond at the Met.
• Loss: Pat leaving for her annual golf trip in Tennessee.
• Gain: Renewal of my appreciation for Pat while missing her presence.
• Loss: Finishing my colleague Alysa Turkowitz's dissertation on how LGBT grad students navigate the classroom; I wanted it to continue, like a good movie or book.
• Gain: Honor at having been among the interviewees included in Alysa's dissertation.
• Loss: Sunday relaxation.
• Gain: The opportunity to prepare for a hugely important meeting at work.
• Loss: Lap-time with our feline daughter Phoebe during a two-day, off-site workshop in New York City.
• Gain: Two-day workshop on how to help a key population with its learning needs.
• Loss: My cousin Joe Silverman (z"l), to Parkinson's, Pneumonia and a stroke, just a couple of nights ago.
• Gain: Memories of Joe's and Joy, his wife's, kindness to my family after the death of my dad (z"l) in 1982.
• Loss: Maurice Sendak (z"l), an icon from my childhood, who drew the most appealing stories he could imagine.
• Gain: Learning that Maurice Sendak was gay and had a 50-year companion via this obituary
• Loss: Rain on and off since Friday.
• Gain: A front-garden full of pale- and dark-purple irises.