In 2020 when the pandemic tore across our globe, "She [children's bookmaker,
Sophie Blackall] coped the way all artists cope, complained the way all makers
complain: by making something of beauty and substance, something that begins as
a quickening of self-salvation in ones own heart and ripples out to touch, to
salve, maybe even to save others -- which might be both the broadest and the
most precise definition of art. One morning under the hot shower, Sophie began
making a mental list of things to look forward to -- a lovely gesture of taking
tomorrows outstretched hand in that handshake of trust and resolve we call
optimism."
Maria Popova shares more.
