A place I enjoy to drop by is Crossroads dispatches The author, Evelyn Rodriguez, sure looks a beautiful person in every way. A quote she quoted last time: "The other day a friend and I were talking about the difficulty that most of us have in grasping the concept that we are artists - that life is our canvas... Whatever you're about to do today can be transformed into art, if your heart is open and you're willing to be the Great Creator's conduit. Women are artists of the everyday... As an artist I have come to know that there are three very different layers to creation: the labor, the craft, and the elevation. St. Francis of Assisi explains the creative process this way: the woman who works with her hands only is a laborer; the woman who works with her hands and her head is a craftswoman; the woman who works with her hands, her head, and her heart is an artist... It takes a lifetime to create the work of art for which we were born: an authentic life."