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Letter From the Editor:
Counting Down to 100
By: Robert SafianJune 1, 2010

My grandfather used to paint. He wasn't particularly good at it, but he found it calming. He would also make collages with found objects. I look at his work sometimes and try to figure out the stories he was trying to tell (he's been gone for 35 years). I see something different every time.

My grandfather wasn't an artist. He had a dressmaking business. If you looked at him, you wouldn't have guessed he was a creative person. He was conservative in his bearing, his style. But he did design most of the clothing his firm produced.

That's the way creativity is: plainly obvious or visible only from the right vantage point.

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