Silence, Dinner Plates, Vaccination and Projects

Silence

I was raised to be silent.

I was taught to tolerate situations and people. I was taught to not make noise, to not take up space, to not cause conflict, to not have unpleasant emotions, to not cause a scene.

It has taken most of my life to unlearn these things, and I wasn’t very good at it until 4 years ago when I decided I had had enough. I began t…