You can’t love a piece of art and not look at it just one time. It is impossible and it shows you really have no care for the art. “Garden at Giverny” by Claude Monet (shown above) is a beautiful painting of a garden but if you look at its beautiful garden a few times then you see much more than what you saw the first time. The first time you may have seen some flowers, a few trees, and a small pond in the background but the second time you notice the small details that make the art much more interesting. Maybe you see details in the flowers, or a peculiar object in the pond, or you could see an animal basking in the light. Perhaps, you searched up the story of “Garden at Giverny” and you now know the backstory and you see it differently than you did before. You may now notice that those flowers you saw were Iris’, or you now realize the trees were willow trees and you now have a fascination for them, or perhaps now you know that the garden was noticeable from Monet’s bedroom window. Or possibly, you could see a completely different story. You may have once seen the artwork as just artwork or a simple story but now you could have seen the artwork as a much bigger story, or a story at all. When I see this artwork again and again, I see different perspectives and different stories to the artwork. It is not just artwork; it is a story. Next time, read your book again, or look at the artwork again and think and see it differently. Maybe even someone else will see it the same way. So try and Re-look the masterpiece.
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Daily Creativity #57: Write from the Point of View of a Virus
Write about what it would be like to be a virus, bacterium, or single-celled organism. (Yes, you can do this from the point of view of a coronavirus! But if that creeps you out, feel free to skip it.) If you do write about the coronavirus, consider submitting your story to our COVID-19 blog submissions category!
The Reason for our Smiles, the Amazing NHS, a poem by Cali Davis, 9
Cali Davis, 9Manchester, UK The Reason for our Smiles, the Amazing NHS Cali Davis, 9 To all our heroes helping out during this illness, Your bravery and selflessness deserves our respect, For all you have done and all you will do, We have been brought together and that’s thanks to you. The stars are shining brighter with every waking hour, You’re saving lives, risking your own and for that you have the power, Words can’t express the gratitude we feel, You’re the sun in our eyes and you make our sadness heal. We all await the day for our lives to go back to how they were, But for now let’s appreciate each other and be grateful for what we share, Soon enough this will be a faded memory and the hardships will be less and less, One thing that will never be forgotten is our unsung heroes, the NHS! Editor’s note: For readers not based in Britain, NHS = National Health Service
