On Sep 17, 2012, at 5:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I've often found that people who have a gift find it difficult > to grasp that others can't do it.
I cannot sing worth a damn (I was told very forcefully to lip-synch our wedding recessional). And I am no better at dancing. I am reduced to saying left-right-left-right to myself. When I was courting my wife, who learned ballet as a girl and liked to work in the local little theater on musicals, I signed up with her for a jazz dance class. Oh, that was an eye-opening experience. I looked smashing in a leotard and tights in the dance studio mirrors! And I did learn to say step-ball-change-slide-cross-and-turn to myself! It was terrible and very humbling. And it also gave me a unexpected window into the struggles beginning drawing students had with technical matters that I knew instinctively and could do in my sleep. One student could not see which way the ceiling line sloped in perspective, and I could not hear whether the note rose or fell or which foot I should put my weight on. After the dance class, I was an entirely different drawing teacher. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
