21st Art Retreat

At my 21 Art Retreat where I hang out with a passel of art kids in the woods.  I do not know if I would ever do this out of my own volition but I can say that, though forced for 21 years to do it, I do find it, on some level, rewarding.  Young people are truly a transcendent experience for the old.  It reminds me of the days when I was young, when my body was new and fresh, my mind full of wanderlust and my physical strength held all kinds of promise for accomplishment.  Young is never wasted on the young because you have the body to pull it off.  And it is never wasted on the old because it makes you grateful for your past gifts.  Youth is only wasted on those that never mature to an understanding that time alive is a gift from God and time granted for old age is a gift you never earned.