It’s been years since I contributed to my own blog page, even though I’ve paid the fee each summer to maintain it. I got too busy, too happy, too involved in everything from running a community antiracism organization to raising my son and starting a new marriage.

And now I’m back only by chance. I need to practice doing this so that I can help the students in the “Material Culture of Protest” class I’m teaching set up a virtual exhibit about protest around statues.

So there. And because I love the Ginko, the tree where all the leaves turn and then fall all at once, but I also always feel a little sympathy for the nonconformist, here’s an image for my return.