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All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. –
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here is surely nothing like a child to remind you of the raw ability to create art, the art that waits inside of you, wishing for you to breathe life into it. So often we get sucked into the routine of our “adulting” and find reason to believe that anxiety and chores are all that remain for our future. We are constantly checking our phones for
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I don’t know what reason. Do we expect them to turn into magical unicorns that will whisk us away from the bills, the housework, and the job? Certainly we don’t take moments out of our day often enough to believe in the impossible, to create something novel, to make believe or play. That is, unless you have a child. It is then that you have a very legitimate excuse, as well as a duty, to indulge in these (continues)
