Stray Thoughts: The Power of Art

On a long, smoky trip across Montana

my son wondered why he had to travel

all these hours, spend all this lost time

on a hot, bumpy car ride to accompany

his sister and mother to an event

he would not even be attending.

I told him we also had a treat for him.

My son is a “creative”... as they say in the

modern vernacular of art…and we would be

visiting a modern art museum while there.

Mildly curious now, he…