“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Each December, I vowed to make Christmas a calm and peaceful experience. I had cut back on nonessential obligations — [...]

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” ~Rabbinical Saying
Children of Heaven, an Iranian movie directed by the Majid Majidi, has been an award-winner at many film festivals. It’s also the first Iranian movie to have been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category. It’s [...]

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort.  The tough problem is not in identifying winners:  it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”  ~K. Patricia Cross
Around the same time I started drawing, I also joined a classical music (vocal) class in my area. For those of [...]