 |
| Hope from a stranger London, ON September 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
The chalk angels have been at it again.
In advance of kids both here and across the country returning to school today, some kind strangers spent a lot of time and a lot of calcified sticks of colour drawing inspirational messages on the sidewalks and walking paths near the neighbourhood school.
I came across them on the weekend, cheerful inspiration every few metres, and a reminder that good people still exist.
These very same sidewalks have been spray-painted with swastikas and hate-filled screeds on multiple occasions over the past year or so. The perpetrator has been arrested three separate times, and in March he received a 182-day jail sentence.
I’m struck by the materials used in both cases: chalk for the good stuff, paint for the graffiti. While the paint ostensibly sticks around and the chalk washes off with the first rain, I’d like to think the inspirational messages are the ones that will stick longer in the minds of the kids who walk these paths.
Good always prevails over evil. It has to. Our kids are counting on it.
#ldnont #london #ontario #canada #sidewalk #chalk #backtoschool #signs #stilllife #streetphotography #photography #apple #iphone #iphone16 #shotoniphone
Related:
Mr Kotter was right all along, September 2024
A mural struggles to be seen, August 2024
Spray-painted swastikas in my neighbourhood, August 2024
Chalk it up to art, August 2023
The rainbow connection, May 2021
I keep seeing signs, April 2020
When chalk circles disappear, April 2020
Seeing signs, everywhere, March 2020
Sidewalk, chalk, and a dog, September 2018
Little boy at play, March 2010
Wordless Wednesday - a chalk circle moment, June 2008
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please note that Written Inc. has been set up so that all comments must first be moderated before they go live on the blog. I apologize for the inconvenience, but this is to ensure bots and trolls don't muck up the works. If you have any difficulty leaving a comment here as a result, please feel free to email it to carmilevy AT gmail DOT com. Thank you for your understanding.