Think You’re Challenged?

Whenever I hear students wonder aloud why their lives must be filled so with untenable adversity, I try to offer something that might help them realize the advantages they enjoy, advantages they may daily take for granted. And I don’t just mean the manifold opportunities they have at school or the variety of choices they have living in free-market America. I mean something even more fundamental, something like the use of their hands. Thus this recent USA Today article on foot and mouth painters: “Disabled artists get broad stroke of resilience”.

I’ve mentioned foot and mouth painters to students many times before, almost every year with every new batch of kids that come through my door, and highlight what a man or woman can do if he or she is determined despite seemingly insurmountable odds:

Hafeneinfahrt, Jeffrey Ladow

Dig that.

October 22, 2007 | Filed Under Fine Arts, Youth

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