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For me, the most difficult part of being an artist is finding time to do the art! All the other things in my life keep intruding on my art time. I wish I could rope off blocks of time … set big orange cones on the corners, string plastic yellow tape around the edges, and post guards to pace around it and make sure nothing else even thought about intruding into it. I need to declare a world-free art zone in my house! Hmmmm … I wonder if I could join the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Carol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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