By Guest writer and Cornerstone University Student Alex Perry If you are anything like me, you tend to live your life in a bubble. I often find myself gazing off when I am working on something to think of a person, place, situation that is not happening in the current moment. People have had to…
Thank you to the thousands of visitors who helped us successfully to complete our tenth year of ArtPrize. It has been an amazing journey! ArtPrize visitors wrote 65,000 promises to be kind at our interactive healing installation. We are truly grateful for all your amazing support. Thank you to the all Broken Wings team members,…
Children are precious and beautiful like the butterflies. Each child is unique like each butterfly. But children are fragile, too, like the butterflies. So, they need to be nurtured. Cared for. During my middle school years when my parents were separated, a family new to our community invited me over for dinner—to encourage me. This…
While visiting a butterfly house, a magnificent Blue Morpho Butterfly landed on my wrist like a “live” ornament bracelet. The Lepidoptera, or four-winged insect, remained on my hand for about the next thirty minutes—whether I walked or stood still. Curiously, the butterfly’s gigantic five-inch wingspan would flux in tandem with my movements. The butterfly’s wings…
Broken Wings empowers students to overcome bullying and toxic relationship by starting a Butterfly Effect of kindness. The interactive artwork also invites visitors to come up with their own creative solutions on how to diffuse negative social situations. In this video, one student offers his advice on how he has learned to personally overcome negativity…
I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, it can start a chain reaction. Rachel Joy Scott, first student killed, Columbine High School, 1999 Every person is worthy of compassion. Even people we find distasteful or crude. You know…the people that really bug us or grate…