Back at Highlands Juvenile Detention Center today - the first time in 2011!!
It is a powerful experience to be in the gymnasium with the six boys in orange jumpsuits and see them, one by one, let down some of their "tough guy" walls, some of the boundaries they have built up because they are in jail. Their imaginations start to release creative sparks and suddenly, we are giggling because the biggest guy in class has run across the room, screaming, "I need to buy some coconuts!!"
We compete to see who can do Stomp-style rhythm on the styrofoam cups the fastest.
And I get a fist bump at the end of class.
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