My Monday this week was a workday of professional development, and I signed up for a workshop in 3D techniques for ceramic instructors. I've been silent when friends and neighbors have been talking about the collective and universal harm being inflicted on the country. Silence is privilege, and so let me emerge from the bubble and quote Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." I made this plaque from air dried clay during the workshop. The chain was initially attached across the heart, and I needed to be hopeful if I was going to inscribe a message that love trumps hate. And so I broke the chain and attached it to the heart. But that looked wrong too.
And so, the chain had to be broken more visibly and hang ineffectually down.
And this morning a group of us teachers will be standing outside in front of the school with protest signs. I made signs yesterday.
And here's one for the protest planned in March.
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