What I'm reading

Sudeep writes:

I'm reading Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam. Yes, it's about basketball. Halberstam
follows the 1979 Portland Trailblazers. There lots of fascinating stories and people from a time when the NBA was getting more and more exposure and money from television and was changing into what it is today. It's so good I'm actually hesitant to keep reading it, I don't want it to be over!

Also, did you know Lucille Clifton died? I really like this
poem of hers:

i am accused of tending to the past

i am accused of tending to the past
as if i made it,
as if i sculpted it
with my own hands. i did not.
this past was waiting for me
when i came,
a monstrous unnamed baby,
and i with my mother's itch
took it to breast
and named it
History.
she is more human now,
learning languages everyday,
remembering faces, names and dates.
when she is strong enough to travel
on her own, beware, she will.