What We Choose to Keep - Art, Childhood, and God Only Knows

From my daughter’s framed rainbow to Brian Wilson’s final harmony—why we keep making art, even in the hardest of times.

Another school year has come to a close. And just like that, my little girl’s first grade chapter is finished pages filled with learning, healing, and creating.

But what we save each year isn’t the worksheets or assessments. It’s the art.

In kindergarten, it was a rainbow meticulously drawn with markers, each color chosen with care, framed and proudly hun…