Mr. Lincoln gave me an odd going away present during my “final exam” (an interview). He said, “You don’t finish your art ideas so buy a nice piece of clothing.”
For various reasons I couldn’t spend money and wore my mother’s high school clothes to art class. It also took, and still takes me, a long time to learn so about seven years after the final I saw some connects between the two ideas and bought a new suit. Soon after the second law of spiritual physics kicked in. It stipulates, first you have faith then step into the Percivalian void THEN you are supported, given fortitude and understanding. The shock to my system gave me crazy new ideas and the courage to finish them. I no longer said, “Here’s a great idea. Wouldn’t it have been wonderful?”
Mr. Lincoln would be pleased; I’m redrawing and rewriting many of my children’s books, including Chickens In Birthday Suits, now available again at Amazon. AND he’d laugh out loud at my skirt. It had been a size XXL sweater for a guy. It had great color and the yarn is soft cotton but it looked hideous on me! I unsewed its arms, stitched them onto the body, of what had been the old sweater and WALL LA: A skirt. I like it!   nancymauerman.com