This clip was helpful to me. I’ve become pessimistic. I believe grief and the hardship of the last couple of years are factors. I want to find more prosocial examples to mix in with my worries.
This is something good to donate to this month: Ilbijerri Theatre Company are working on the problem of incarceration of youth.
“A First Peoples child is twenty-seven times more likely to be incarcerated than a non-Indigenous child. In some youth detention centres, almost every child inside is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
For many communities, this is not an isolated failure of policy. It is the continuation of a system that removes children from family, culture and Country. A system many describe as a second Stolen Generation.”
I want to read more utopian stories. People use their imagination to share how the world could be better. Fearless mental experiments that pave the way for imagining a better future to point the arrow at, rather than all the grey ugliness that seems to create an overcast outlook.
I visited A Better Life for Foster Kids in Sale in the second week of the holidays so my mum could drop off the crocheted rugs and dolls she had made. I love their work, packing up little suitcases with things a child will need. Care delivered by women on a volunteer basis.
At the building the organisation works in, there was this massive mosaic hanging over the stairwell.
The plaque said it was designed and executed by the Sale Technical College, first-year arts students in 1963. It’s an historical artifact of the colonialism and patriarchy of our region. However, there was in a regional area an arts course in Sale able to do this over 60 years ago. Now, with our abundance and “improvements”, we have no formal arts education in Gippsland.
