It was already a wonderful moment. I was sitting with my grandson reading to him from the book “The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. But in my haste to use the story to teach Tyler an important life lesson, I almost missed the most important lesson of all.
What I Learned from The King of the Forest!
I am a closet watercolor painter. Unfortunately my perfectionism has kept me from painting for several years and made me afraid to show my work in public for fear of criticism. I have thrown dozens of paintings away because they weren’t perfect. On other paintings in an effort to get it perfect I repainted so many times that the result …