Lawyer as Artist.
As I read Seth Godin's new book, The Icarus Deception , I kept asking myself: What is my art? What do I create joyously, diligently, passionately, and with increasingly greater skill and insight? In the early 1970s, my high school -- University City High -- had one of the most REMARKABLE art departments in all of St. Louis County. Staffed by three teachers, the program taught painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and fiber arts. Thirty years later, I still have pieces of art I created at that time: pencil drawings of my boyfriend and the male rhinoceros at the zoo; a bronze cast sculpture of a heavy-bottomed woman; a huge hookah pipe, made of coiled clay, I now use as a deck ornament; a silk screened T-shirt imprinted with an original design; and watercolor landscapes. The program also introduced me to many techniques and materials that I have used fearlessly throughout my life. The course made me a better problem-solver. About a week ...