One of the (many) life-buttressing aspects of teaching spectacularly creative people how to live with, love, explore and maximize what they've got is that every now and then--usually, as in this case, years and years later--one of them finds his or her way to my creative work, and finds that they like it. And then I get things like this. It's by my remarkable former student, Siena Aguayo, a drawing of Natalie (from
Motherless Child) in her Waffle House uniform.

So good, Siena...