Art

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those willing to undergo the effort to understand it.

~ Flannery O'Connor

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Leslie: So I guess one brand of glue stick is not the same as the next, huh?

Me: Nope.

Leslie: Some are better than others?

Me: Yep. 

Leslie: (holding up a skinny glue stick with glue glob balls on the end) And this is not one of the better ones, right?

Me: Yep.

Leslie: (murmuring to herself) I hate crafts.

But she loves reading and writing. Those are her forms of art. Also puppetry, but I try not to talk about that too much. If I do, she gets out the puppets and leaves them around the house and I get startled. 

I don't like being startled. Even though there is art in stARTled, too.