The History of Monuments in America

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i was talking about, like, what we do with statues in ireland of former colonizers. And so i was kind of, you know, writing about the history that we have with monuments. This one little girl, she was ten, and i met her,. i was introdusing her down in richmond and virginia. She was just wonderful. It's important to capture when you're talking about em big and sad and historic things are like larger ways that society operates, is to like, go small.

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