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The Extra-Ordinary Ordinary

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." – Edgar Degas Why do we find such pleasure in the ordinary things of life? For instance, we may...

Christmas Carols

This Christmas, as we all seek peace and meaning in our lives, it is good to enrich our souls with the music and the meaning of this magical and mystical...

One Picture is Not Worth a Thousand Words

“Nothing is true, but that which is simple.” ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe German poet, novelist and dramatist. Well, never in the case of two of the greatest Poet-Storytellers of...

The Tom Sawyer Effect-Why Art Intrinsically Motivates

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson.  In “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, Mark Twain writes that...


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