Not Safe For What

“Artist” is not an occupation—it’s an honorific title. All humans are creators in some capacity, whether whistling during housework, doodling in classroom notebooks, or making memes about the day’s celebrity foibles. … But only a gifted few will combine their creativity with enough expertise to ever produce anything that earns admiration from others. … As various writers have expressed, the social position of the artist in contemporary society is akin to that of a “priest or a sorcerer”—a “visionary genius” with “extravagant individualism” who reaches “epiphanies” through a “magical process” of creation.”

This may sound stupid but. How do you even begin to look for new tiny frogs???

I don't want to put the user on blast but I just saw a "you're never too old to start" post about the Artemis II astronauts, and, respectfully, they are astronauts on our first trip back to the moon since Apollo because their entire lives have been building up to it. Christina, the youngest on the crew, wanted to be an astronaut since childhood, has two bachelor's degrees, and has been involved with NASA since 2001, well before she joined as an astronaut. Jeremy joined the Canadian equivalent to Civil Air Patrol at 12 and did his undergrad in space science. Reid started out as a Navy pilot in the late 1990s. Victor went to a public Ivy, has three master's degrees, and became a Navy test pilot 20 years ago. These people's whole lives have been building up to this.

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