CNY 2012

I've never marched in a parade before. I used to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade while growing up and one year I was lucky enough to go with my parents to New York and see the floats up close.

Yesterday, I experienced San Francisco in a way that I never had before. I got to march down Market Street, up Kearny, into Chinatown, with my students. They were the dragons and I, as one of the adults, was the flames. I had friends watching from Macy's department store windows and high hillsides, shouting "We love you Meg" with bullhorns. I got to dress up in costume, entranced by the way that the city was glistening in red and gold around me. The year of the dragon, 2012.