Proud of his art work he had even included drawings of it in papers he handed in to the teacher. I asked for the original but she had already thrown it away. A copy of a school newsletter was sent to me. An article about my talk was featured. It wasn t always the little people who made my files.
Big people are also there and for good reason.
Several years ago, I was a consultant for an art gallery in Las Vegas. Pointing out one of the reasons why attendance was low, I commented that the facility was in a dimly lit park in a questionable neighborhood. An elderly lady sitting next to me rummaged around in her purse and pulled out an automatic pistol. Startled and on the verge of panic, I looked at the other people sitting around the table and they were smiling calmly. Our gun-toting grandmother declared, That s why I bring my gun when I come here.