worse before it gets better…. right?

ok.  so a week ago, I took a walk through the bodega and thought, “Wow, we’re gettting there!”  We had the community work day and much of what we worked on were detail type stuff.  It was fun and it was wonderful to imagine that we would be opening again in just 8 weeks or so. I’m getting anxious, the kids ask everyday when the library will be back, we have the scholarship progam in movement and we need a place to work from etc.  Anyways, 1 week ago It felt like the end was near.

and then…

Monday morning we began to remove the roof. Day 1 and 2 went pretty slow and I was wondering if it might be November before we even get the roof off. Then Tutti came to help out and worked up a funky design for them to get the tiles off the roof by sliding them down two pieces of steel beams and its been a madhouse since.  Today is Sunday and the entire bodega roof will be off by the end of the afternoon.

The bodega looks like a war zone. There is broken tile debris, rotting leaves and dirt everywhere.  The sun shining down without any shade protection is hot and intolerable, becoming even more so because the light lets you see all of the places where the oxidation has eaten through the roof beams… holes, where there shouldn’t be holes… ugh.

So I’m telling myself to breathe deep.  This is the turning point, the moment of darkness before the light, the point of reckoning, the test… this is where it gets really bad and then it will get really good… right?