My Christmas present from Enoch, my six-year-old grandson, brings me back to the theme of the creative potential of a child. Over the years I've featured my own children, my grandchildren and my friend's children. The secret is to catch them young for they soon loose the ability to see the world through the eyes of a child. As Picasso said:
It took me two years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child...What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace.
Enoch's creative signature indicates that for the time being all is well.
But there's more to come. My brother's Christmas message warns me that one of his grandchildren has been given a box of paints for Christmas and he fears he may grow up like me!
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