Artisans. Local Heroes.
It's easy to find celebrities to follow. It's why they're celebrities.Those on stage, not working behind the scenes.
Right now the people really making a difference are the invisible heroes. Teachers who having worked all over Christmas to prepare for Covid testing pupils found themselves with no notice preparing lessons to run in parallel in the classroom and remotely. Parents at the other end of that, home schooling children and working from home themselves. Medical teams facing an onslaught as inevitable as it is difficult. People who pick up the pieces of decisions made far away with little empathy for those who will pick up the pieces created by the things the decision makers didn't know they didn't know.
"Famous people are interesting," she said, "but there's a kind of a distancing phenomenon there. I'm interested in the creativity that we all put into our lives. Picasso's life story is not empowering to the creativity of ordinary people. What…
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