You can do your work in your PJs if you want to.

There is a strong core of artists who have been working to preserve Frankford for a long time. It's been very inspiring and motivating for me to start to build relationships with them.

especially during high school years, when you have to really want to learn it (a subject), or it's not going to get done.

I have people coming up congratulating me and I'm thinking, 'How'd you know?'

[Down the street from Klak's shop, up on the third floor of the landmark St. Mark's Church, dance company 7Dance is rehearsing for an upcoming show [for a preview, see p. 25].] There is a strong core of artists who have been working to preserve Frankford for a long time, ... It's been very inspiring and motivating for me to start to build relationships with them.

He's kept working on it -- and he's still got a way to go, but it's coming. It's a work in process, but he's willing to work hard.