Again the hands would go up. I have crayons and markers and can draw you any picture you would want. Sometime in our lives, we begin to dissociate ourselves from those gifts. Athletes are those who perform at the stadium. Musicians are those people who sing at the MAC or the Auditorium.
Artists have their pictures on prominent walls.
We might have been those things as children, but something happens. We lose sight of the fact that maybe within us, there is still an artist, an athlete, a musician, and still a gifted individual. It is not just in the arts. Parker Palmer argues that we do this with many of our unique talents in life. He came to this conclusion watching his newborn granddaughter and realizing that she was born as this kind of person.