When you rise in the morning give thanks for the light for your life for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks the fault lies in yourself.
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s) I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
