#whatsgoodtoday
This Charlie-Brown-looking-tree is What’s Good Today on my street. Read on.
What’s Good Today?
a million dollar question for you.
one I’d really love to know.
Why?
As a counter-balance to all the BS out here on the internet.
As a way to rewire our brains and lower our collective blood pressure.
As a way to see what’s happening in the world that’s real, that’s small, that’s peaceful, that’s fleeting, that’s miraculous, that’s courageous.
back to that tree.
In the fall, the day after a home football game, I noticed this sapling. The day before it was minding its own business, growing.
The next day, broken by who I only assume was a drunk college student showing out for their buddies the night before.
I was PISSED. There is really no other to express this.
Time passes as time does.
Every time I walked past that tree, I got pissed at the perpetrator and then at the property owner for leaving this sad-ass stick-tree in the ground to remind me of the a-hole who did this.
Super logical.
And then last week, I noticed that POOF, the tree healed itself.
It just went about growing another trunk (surely not the scientific term for what happened) and got on with itself.
Moral of the story: do not give up on organisms, places, people. They/we may look broken, but there’s usually a lot going on underneath the surface.
Also please do not break organisms, places, or people. They/we can heal but man, we shouldn’t have to.
The What’s Good Project is spread across Iowa in two exhibitions this summer: one at the Oskaloosa Art Center (May 10 - July 19) and one at the Memorial Union Gallery at Iowa State University (June 1 - July 28).
My pal and MU Art Director Letitia Kenemer, who could truly write a tome about using art in fun ways to bring folks together (and then another one about being a really good person), had the grand idea of inviting everybody to pitch in with this.
We came up with #whatsgoodtoday, a handy hashtag that isn’t totally overrun, for y’all to use so we can find you on Instagram or Facebook. You can also comment below.
These responses will be gathered and displayed in the MU Gallery throughout the exhibition.
So please spread the word!
