Athlete Artist, Artist Athlete
07/19/16 • 2 min
The artist has an audience.
In that relationship, a person can delight, antagonize, soothe or jolt another.
There you will find a moment of some consequence between two people.
It is a beautiful thing.
My mom is a successful and brilliant poet.
Before other people wrote blurbs on the back of her books and gave her awards and spent money to own her writing, she woke at 4:30 in the morning, sat at the kitchen table and wrote – every day – before kids, work and a million other demands would claim her attention.
The artist has an audience.
In that relationship, a person can delight, antagonize, soothe or jolt another.
There you will find a moment of some consequence between two people.
It is a beautiful thing.
My mom is a successful and brilliant poet.
Before other people wrote blurbs on the back of her books and gave her awards and spent money to own her writing, she woke at 4:30 in the morning, sat at the kitchen table and wrote – every day – before kids, work and a million other demands would claim her attention.
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