A Long Held Dream Realized ...

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Pat, she is so cute! I am happy for you that you are back and closer to your son and granddaughter. Maybe she will be an artist too someday?!

[Alexandra Tyng]

I was thinking the same thing! You are giving your grandhildren a great gift by doing what you want to do and sharing it with them. I believe this makes an indelible impression upon children, freeing them to be creative and to find a career that they love. So I wouldn't be surprised if there were artists among your gandchildren and if they referred to "Grandma Joyce" as their first mentor.

[Steven Sweeney]

Looks like you

[Patricia Joyce]

Yeserday we did lots of sidewalk chalk as well, Steven! Everytime I read someone's bio which states that they grew up with an artist parent/grandparent, getting mentorship and encouragement to be creative I felt envy. Now, I feel great joy that I am that grandparent. Alex is doubly lucky, her dad, my oldest is a working musician. She is quite the singer and dancer, can really jig to "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and the Beatles might be her favorite...

To live and to see is to learn. To breath in the air of creativity is to become creative invisible.

Doesn't she look like she is giving a workshop and instructing her students in pic #2? She just gets to me. Big Time

[Steven Sweeney]

Originally Posted by Patricia Joyce

Everytime I read someone's bio which states that they grew up with an artist parent/grandparent, getting mentorship and encouragement to be creative I felt envy.

The great jazz guitarist Pat Metheny was just in town. You watch and listen and you just wonder, slack-jawed, where that came from. And then you learn that he actually started out as a trumpet player. And that his grandfather was a trumpet player under John Philip Sousa. Metheny was probably toe-tapping in the womb.

I never made it as an athlete, but a maternal relative was an NFL football player and that fact itself was a huge motivational push for my son, who excelled in the sport in high school and now plays for a college team.

We are teaching always, whether by design or accident. Class is always in session.

[Michele Rushworth]

[quote]My dad, an underpaid blue-collar worker his entire life, was extremely well read, a self-taught near-expert in a variety of interests and avocations, including an undeniable and often manifested talent for artistic expression. A woodcarver, a pipefitter, mechanic and logskinner, musician (guitar, his father a fiddler), fisherman and craftsman. He never

[Marvin Mattelson]

Did you sign her up for my workshop yet? She may replace you as my favorite student.