This is my first ever back to school season as a mom, and it is hard as hell. I understand so much more about this time than ever. As a person who works with small business owners, I always joke that back to school means that every mom who's been dreaming about finally being her own boss appears at the exact same moment when school is back in session. I feel it this September - THIS is the moment that I will be able to make headway on the projects that have been on the back burner.
It's amazing how the structure around us shapes our creativity. I thought of this when drew this response to Edward Ji's award winning poem "The Storm" for PEN America's Prison Writing Anthology.
Time, space and control combine to limit prisoners' expression of their humanity. The writers in the anthology show that processes and structures may hold us, but we have the power to respond and communicate. The walls are real. They impact us, but they don't stop us.
It's amazing how the structure around us shapes our creativity. I thought of this when drew this response to Edward Ji's award winning poem "The Storm" for PEN America's Prison Writing Anthology.
Time, space and control combine to limit prisoners' expression of their humanity. The writers in the anthology show that processes and structures may hold us, but we have the power to respond and communicate. The walls are real. They impact us, but they don't stop us.