The West Is Burning; What Do We Tell the Children?
How transparent should we be during 2020’s tirades?
5 min readSep 12, 2020
In the fall of 2019, my daughter’s fourth-grade class took a field trip to the Portland Art Museum to see Hank Willis Thomas’s All Things Being Equal. In a series of emails prior to the visit, her teacher prepared parents for what our children would encounter: a thoughtful exploration by a…