Comm 4610 at SLU

Daily reminder at my house. Be a Fountain Every year on Mother's Day, my family braves the unusually hot St. Louis-in-May temperatures to visit the annual art fair in Laumeier Sculpture Park . Some of us are there for the art while others are there for the food trucks, but we all enjoy it until we are sweaty and tired and have to be in air conditioning. I don't usually buy anything, but this year, I passed a booth with framed prints. They were simple, inexpensive, and yes, a little trendy (see palm fronds). I wasn't planning to buy, but before we left the art fair, I broke away from my family and went back to buy this print, which I hung in a place my family members were sure to see. Why I Need a Reminder Selfishly, I bought the print as a stand-in for me. I'm constantly reminding my kids not to complain, to be grateful, to be thankful, to be kind to others, to be giving, to be less selfish. "You are so lucky," I say to them. I  thought this w...