Class Take Away 2

Yesterday in class I felt a really strong emotional connection with the student who had the painted her egg. I didn't talk to her, but when she explained her project I was stunned. Her egg, painted with dark shades of green and gold, had gaping holes carved out of the shell. She explained how she had recently lost a family member and she felt like the shell resembled her, and the holes resembled her loss. This was at first extremely sad, but as we passed around the egg Beth asked her if she had looked inside the egg. Nobody in the class had done this yet, and when it was my turn to hold the egg I decided to look inside as well. The holes looked as if they were burned into the shell because of the dark paint around the rim. It looked really really neat, and it made me think to myself "Even though we may feel like empty shells sometimes, our true colors will always shine. Not only around others, but also within ourselves."