This woman, like most of us, was looking too literally at the signs her life was providing her. She wanted to be an artist and she expected a signal, yea or nay. She wanted an “answer,” like someone giving her a set of paints, and so she almost overlooked seeing that she was being given a path to follow. It was almost as though her dream had said, “Don’t be something, do something.” It was only when she stopped trying to be the artist that she began to explore the strange corridor in her life that she had never noticed before and found in the half-buried world of the little girl a way of
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