{"id":1680,"date":"2012-08-16T00:30:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2012-08-16T00:30:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:30:39","slug":"words-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"Words to live by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenscratch.com\/2012\/08\/success-stories-deborah-parkin.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1683\" title=\"Playtime, by Deborah Parkin\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/playtime2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/playtime2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/playtime2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/playtime2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Playtime, by Deborah Parkin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When I read this, I thought, yes! That&#8217;s exactly right! And then I reread it and realized that this would be something almost anyone who practices any kind of unrecognized art would think. Which doesn&#8217;t make it any less valuable, of course, but it was the way she worked in her children and possible grandchildren that somehow caught my eye. And also the quality of what she&#8217;s doing in the context of her struggle with obscurity. &#8220;I have also found the Internet . . .&#8221; Funny. Uh, <em>yeah,<\/em> Deborah. 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