My husband Paul, is not a naturally artsy guy. He doesn’t often join us in the collage world, or even in the world of journaling. So when he makes something with the Monkfish folks, I pay attention.

At our All Soul’s night Paul made this memorial for Rosa Parks. He found a picture on line of Ms. Parks holding her police booking number. (She was arrested for refusing to sit in the back of the bus, which is where the “coloreds” were supposed to remain.) In most icons there is a lot of symbolic imagery — St. Julian is always holding a cat, St. Catherine is often pictured with a ship on her shoulder, etc. So Paul has Ms. Parks holding a bus. The million-man march is pictured behind her.

Rosa Parks is truly an iconic figure in American history. She galvanized a nation by honoring her own humanity. She asked for dignity, for equity, for space to just be … and sometimes, she used words.