I was reading an obit of the artist, Karl Benjamin, someone I had never heard of. He was quoted as saying he wanted to be a journalist but couldn’t find a job in that field so he took a job teaching fifth and sixth graders in a California public school. Art was a required subject so he passed out the crayons and the kids churned out drawings of trucks, trees and mountains. He found them boring so his next assignment included the instructions, “No trucks, no trees.” The kids asked, “What should we do?” Benjamin said, “Be quiet and concentrate.”The work the children produced from such simple instructions awed him.
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nature is magical