Virtues of the DInner Table by Django Grace

Virtues of the Dinner Table

BY DJANGO GRACE

This is our family table. No matter where we have been during the day or what we did, on most nights we gather around it. It is where we get the most done. I feel like from this table we can navigate the world; we make plans and solutions and share our ideas. It gives me perspective, as if when we eat dinner we are lifted up from within the turmoil of the world and can suddenly look down upon it. Just my mom, my dad, my brother, me, the occasional guests, and sometimes our little parrot.

Django Grace is an avid skier who loves the winter and the snow. He rides his bicycle almost every day of the year to school, soccer practice, the theater, or a friend’s house. He began to worry about the climate at age 9, and has since joined numerous protests, conferences, and projects addressing the climate crisis. He played a key role in organizing and staging the die-in that interrupted the Heifer Stroll in Brattleboro in 2019. He is the only youth on the Brattleboro Energy Committee, serving to advise the selectboard on ways to make Brattleboro a more sustainable community. He is a freshman at Brattleboro Union High School.