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abies will doodle doing. When he was done, I his art, or there was a lesson
on paper, look at asked him what he did. He that I needed to learn about
Byour face, and tell told me it was a cow. art. And for sure, there was a
you what they believe their lesson for me to learn.

doodle means. It’s up to you How does he see a Beauty, they say, is in the
to agree on what they call cow in these multiple eyes of the beholder. But
their art or not. They care interconnected lines? what about art? Art is in the

less. Two days later, I showed heart of the storyteller.
him the drawing and asked That right there is my lesson.
My two-and-a-half-year-old him the same question and
son doodled on a piece of he answered “A cow”. Art is in the heart of the
paper with a pencil he found storyteller.

on my table. He was so It was then that I told myself Art without a story is dead.
focused while doing his thing that either the young man Just like faith without works
you would be convinced, he knew what he was saying is dead.

knew exactly what he was and I was the one blind to

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