This past Saturday, on the potent date of 9/11, twenty families and many friends gathered at Kingston Point Beach to celebrate community and the healing wrought by shared wisdom and the unique expression of our own two hands and hearts. The medium was shekere— gourd instruments, and (in this case) decorated with cotton cord and simple wooden beads—and although we each had access to the same small and large monochromatic beads, every finished piece pulsed with its very own character and range.

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