I almost always have a small sketchbook with me (55 of my 75 years). People say Oh are you an artist? And I say no, I just draw and write to help me notice things better….Usually that ends it.

But I played a game with my kids when they were young. I still play it for myself and now with grandkids: on a blank page of any paper, close your eyes and make three random marks on the page. Then look, turn it any which way, and finish it as a ‘drawing.’ No need to be good, just a semi-recognizable ‘thing’.

My son, now a grown up lawyer, still plays by himself in chance moments, and his kids play it, in the notebooks they carry…

Art is the name of a friend, not a piece of cultural produce.