{"id":19994,"date":"2014-10-25T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T01:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19994"},"modified":"2014-10-25T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T01:18:42","slug":"a-creative-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19994","title":{"rendered":"A Creative Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, while at the Ogden Museum visiting the Basquiat on the Bayou<\/em> exhibit, Tin had his pen and pad (because he was still in Tin Tin costume minus the orange hair from the night before) and he was drawing. A woman asked him if he was an artist, and I said he’s a creative. Which means he is talented enough to create his own world, something I have been striving for my whole life. <\/p>\n

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When Tin was a baby, an artist friend gave him a book called Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All<\/em> – verse by Maya Angelou and paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. It’s been one of our favorites, so today we went to see Basquiat on the Bayou<\/a>, part of the Prospect 3 exhibits all over town for the next couple of months – lucky us! <\/p>\n

Every now and then when someone has seen Tin drawing, they’ve said, “he’s going to be the next Basquiat” like they used to say when they saw him with a trumpet in his mouth: “the next Louis Armstrong” – but the truth is that even though Tin can do a mean imitation of Tin Tin and Satchmo, I wish for my son to be himself because that in and of itself is the ultimate goal. <\/p>\n

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I sat in the backyard with a friend today while our kids played on the trampoline and our sibling dogs caroused the yard and said that I wished for my son a radical education rather than the one that is here for him – but a few nods and shakes of our head and we both yielded to the reality that he is happy enough with what he’s got – it’s literally me, who wants to shake things up. <\/p>\n

A creative soul = someone who destroys to create and creates to destroy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, while at the Ogden Museum visiting the Basquiat on the Bayou exhibit, Tin had his pen and pad (because he was still in Tin Tin costume minus the orange hair from the night before) and he was drawing. A woman asked him if he was an artist, and I said he’s a creative. Which means he is talented enough to create his own world, something I have been striving for my whole life. When… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-5cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20002,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19994\/revisions\/20002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}