![]() I answered their twin calls with a call-related message of my own. I was suffering from stall monotony, as was the stall itself! I could hear it, calling out for change, just as that suspended pencil called out for use - for a pencil adventure! So one day, I brought the two together. I would look at our yellowed stall walls, marred with shoe smudges here, scotch tape there, and see the same boring signs (do not flush paper towels) and posters (Bridget Jones’s Diary) that I’d been looking at for almost four years. Deprived of the opportunity to be used for its intended purpose. Problem solved!Įxcept that that pencil began calling to me. Since our bathroom isn’t open to the public, there was no real need to resolve this inconvenience, and we just got used to it, annoying though it was.īut that all changed the day some genius came up with the idea to use a PENCIL as the crossbar! It was perfect! A new pencil, already sharpened, turned out to be just the right length to be suspended between the two prongs. For a long time, we ladies would suffice with the toilet paper roll either awkwardly rolling, perpendicularly, on one of the prongs, or sitting on the toilet tank behind us. The prongs that stick out from the wall were there, but there was no "crossbar" on which to slide the roll so that it would be suspended between the prongs. One of the stalls was, for quite some time, without an adequate toilet paper roll holder. The women’s restroom at our store has three stalls. my job has turned me into a graffiti writer. ![]() You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to am not usually one who engages in delinquent behavior, but…. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. The unknown Israeli artists are graffitiing the names in an effort to change the anonymous nature of those killed.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: The blog links to lists in English and Hebrew of the names and ages of the Palestinians killed in this latest round of violence. I hope someone will pass by and think by mistake that a girl called Dunya Mahdi Hamad walked along this street at four in the morning on the night between Friday and Saturday, spray painted her name and added her age. I’m not sure if the people who will see this on the street will know that this is a name of young woman who was killed in Gaza. According to the Tumblr blog profiling the graffiti, names on walls: The goal of the anonymous left-leaning Israelis is to remind the Israeli public of the growing death toll in Gaza. At the same time, millions of Israelis have been forced to huddle in bomb shelters in fear of more than 1,000 incoming Hamas rockets. Nearly 80 percent of the Palestinian dead are civilians, the United Nations reported, with many female and youth casualties. The names of the Gaza dead now appear across many neighborhoods in this desert Israeli town.Īs of Wednesday, more than 200 Palestinians and 1 Israeli had died in the latest Gaza violence. ![]() ![]() Nor Hana ("Hana Malakiyeh, aged 27"), nor her son ("Mohammed Malakiyeh, aged 18 months.")Ī group of Israelis have chosen to commemorate the dead in the latest Gaza conflict by spray painting surfaces in the southern city of Beersheva with biographical details of name and age. Inscribed on a concrete barrier off a quiet residential street, the graffiti reads "Dunya Mahdi Hamad, aged 16." But Dunya did not not write her own name. ![]()
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