It’s hard to sit down to write a newsletter about being creative and art when it feels like the world is falling apart. It’s hard in this moment to find it in myself to care about art, teaching it, creating it, or supporting others in doing it. It all feels so unimportant and trite. Everything for me feels shadowed in sadness right now. And then, in a little Instagram exchange with a former student, I am reminded… he said (in regard to certain aspects of the current situation