Creating So We Can Create

An acquaintance who has published books is also a fellow member of the Press Club, the Arts Club and my Monday morning painting workshop at the Torpedo Factory. I asked him what he was writing now and he explained that he had taken up art in the hopes of overcoming a writer's block. That reminded me of my beginning with art when I was having the common graduate student's problems with my dissertation and a friend warned me that I would never finish it unless I took up a diversion; she recommended art. This sent me to the Laguna Gloria art center, located in Sam Houston's former home in Austin, Texas where I was attending the University of Texas. I did get my degree so I owe my economics career to art! I hope my colleague finishes his book. Are we the only people who create so we can create?