Practice Art

RIC_9058-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

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. …

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country

Reading & Writing

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.  What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

Mark Vonnegut on his Dad Kurt Vonnegut's writing