Friday, October 14, 2011

Diversity

I could drown in the stream of papers flowing into this house from elementary school.  Yesterday a teal sheet arrived announcing an art contest -- literary, visual, dramatic art addressing the prompt "Diversity means..." So this morning, Silas and I sat down and talked about what diversity means -- it's the opposite of same, diverse fruits and vegetables at the farmers' market, diverse people at the park, how if a group of people all looked exactly the same and said the exact same thing etc.  Then he left to draw.   At one point I heard him say, I'm coloring my ninja.  Ninja?!  What exactly is happening in your picture?  This was it:  someone tall, someone low, a ninja, a bee keeper with bees on him, a (very small) robber, a baby, and multiple X's that show that other people are NOT those things.  Diversity.

4 comments:

m* said...

through a child's eyes. Wonderful.

Annemarie said...

SO awesome oh brilliant godson o' mine :)

lindsay said...

Love this! What a creative bug and glad you are letting it flow!

KaiaJoye said...

mostly i love the bee keeper.