This has been brewing in the brain pan for a while. My good friend Doug Nilles made a telling note about art. I’ve said repeatedly that the difference between art and fart is the letter f. Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” Considering myself to be a craftsman, not an artist, allows me to include food, craft pieces constructed from paper and glue, ikebana. Word pieces. Make something. Do something. Create a song in your head. You can take something you’ve found that you like and then amplify it and share in a moment. Something New! Something that was never there before. Just because there are no new ideas under the sun is no reason to stop working.