This is a story about my whole family painting the same picture, with an actual artist guiding us on youtube. Now, it turns out, we all had very different looking paintings in the end. My 3 year old has a better excuse than the rest of us. All our paintings were great, but only one looked the same as the youtube artist's. So, why is that? Only one actually followed the instructions, and yet they are all art. I wonder if there is a way to go through life with no instructions whatsoever? I also wonder if there is a way to only follow instructions, never deviating? I say no to both, but accept you could get close either way. While I happen to prefer the risks of very little instruction, I know many that are the opposite, and prefer the security of a more likely outcome. And that is just fine! We all get to choose when and from whom we will take our instructions, and when and from whom we will not! For those of you wanting to correct my use of 'whom', I probably won't take yours, just as I clearly didn't take the instruction from my english teachers!

Cover art by RhondaK