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I was moving horizontally in my career instead of vertically. I seemed to have lost confidence in what I could do as an artist and had lapsed into that old formula of dressing for success instead of actually achieving it. I was too much in debt to go back to school and take up a [...]

Once I was thrown together with other professionals, I was no longer the only kid in the class who could draw and paint well. I was a cog in a fast moving and complex machine. My father had once been a big fish in a small pond. I was only a small to medium size [...]

What we tell our children about themselves (or what we tell others about them in their hearing range) may become what they tell themselves for the rest of their lives. Be cautious. Sometimes their own voices may override yours and maybe the voice of God will override both. But the responsibility is still ours. I [...]