This was written in May, 2013, and appeared in The Heretic Magazine, Volume 4  (http://www.amazon.ca/The-Heretic-Magazine-Volume-4-ebook/dp/B00ELOHY9Q). Recent conversations and attending a performance of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties  have provoked this re-publication.

‘Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life’                                                                                                                                                               Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

How would you feel if your child told you she wanted to be an artist: a musician….a writer…an actor…a painter…a film-maker? Would you consider it…