A once-simple canvas bag is now embroidered with the Great Wave of Kanagawa and a line of graceful black birds, frozen mid flight.
“I wasn’t glad at the time,” she said, “but it helped me become a cleaner person in general, and want things tidy.”
We checked in with a variety of Lovett community members, from a stressed out senior to an on-the-ball security guard, from Chef Kat in the cafe to a parent waiting in the carpool lane...
"The reason why I was inspired to organize this walkout is because I have a renewed sense of optimism as a result of the youth activism that has resulted from the Parkland shootings," says Dylan Shapiro, who organized the protest.
"It was really neat to see, one, the competitive nature, but also how fun it was across divisions... it's brought people together that normally don't see one another."
"I've gotten a little bit more poise now, hopefully, then when I started out," he admits. He has been able to maintain this due to his "great confidence in our community."
I've found Fortnite to be like a good book or a bag of chips. Once you start playing, it can be hard to stop, and I'm not the only one who's hooked.