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The Art process can be fundamentally different for women with children. The adjustment to a new baby requires adapting to their schedule. We learn that our lives are more cyclical than linear. That begins to creep into our art. Our art process becomes a natural cycle of time and seasons, as we watch others take off on a linear track of work, promotion, and success.

And we keep working. Sometimes in frustration. There are breaks and interruptions. A field that lies fallow for a season or two, Art becomes more productive when planted again. Winter is quiet, then raucous growth in spring. We learn to count on this . Like an orchard, a career requires years to yield its best. Eventually a summer comes along when fruit is abundant and the harvest is good.

I enjoy watching Antiques Roadshow when paintings are brought in for appraisal. The artist may or may not be well known, but some of the paintings are incredible. Others are simply heirlooms passed down, of sentimental value only.  I marvel at how over the years someone, some ordinary person, recognized their value, cared, for and preserved them. There are paintings in museums simply because at some point a person. someone, somewhere, loved them spent time and energy to preserve them.Great art is the art we choose to carry with us. Like the Velveteen Rabbit, it becomes real over the time because it is loved. Will any of today's art become real? Time will tell.