January 2022
Resilience
We regrow from failure much more than we don’t
As the past three years have ushered us through many different levels of hardship, failure, struggle and regrowth, students in the visual journalism class at Shorewood High School focused their attention the idea of resilience. Not the kind of resilience of storybooks and and Hallmark movies, but the kind of resilience that happens all around us all the time as we regrow from the failures we encounter almost every day. There is a sense that failure is often cast as end in itself, and one to be avoided at all costs. These students sought to counter that image with a more realistic look at how failure can lead to regrowth. And they settled on the notion of resilience. The student journalists in this class reached out to business owners, food and other service providers, and regular people who have experienced discrimination. What they found was an array of stories documenting resilience in the community around us. Stories of personal growth, stories of systemic resilience, and stories of failure that led to accomplishment and resolve.
When people examine the causes of endemic hunger in our city, they soon come to realize that one of the major factors contributing to hunger is lack of affordable food resources. That’s when a small array of dedicated individuals swing into action. This ‘zine, written and edited by