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okay. I met my husband at the door, crying. I'm sure this terrified him. I said. I realized today I have to be an artist where I'll die. I don't even care if I'm a good artist anymore. I just have to do it. He asked me. What

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do you need? This is why I will never divorce him. I walked away from art as a young adult. I wasn't good enough. When I had Children, everything changed. They were unique, open, fearless, shiny. I wanted them to stay true to themselves. I wanted them to

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trust their hearts. I wanted them to follow their dreams. And then it hit me. How can I want all this for them and not for myself? How will they know what this looks like? If I don't show them? I told John I needed a workspace. I

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didn't have to clear for dinner, he said. We'll make that happen and we did. But where do I start? I looked through my art history books to see what spoke to me. I started with the birthplace of human art Thief, Cave of Lasko in France. I

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imagined an artist of the distant past a woman. What would she have made? A small horse carved in ivory. Who did she make it for? Someone she loved. A person who treasured it, wore it, held it till it was worn smooth by the touch of human

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hands. When they died, it was buried with them. And like the cave, it was brought to life in our lifetime. A message from the past. I made more animals Onley When I look back, could I read the stories they carried? But I still keep the horses

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close. They are the heart of everything I do. I brought to light in my own lifetime the artist I was meant to be. We don't have to be good enough. We are enough, okay?