Let’s hear it for people who support creative arts every day. Like your local art supply store, where you run in for pencils, and get great advice on the best type of paper for your work, or meet a customer who becomes your student.
And musical instrument shops that do so much more than sell instruments – they repair and rent, sell strings and reeds and sheet music. They send their customers to you for lessons. They give free advice on pretty much anything music.
How about your local culinary shop – hopefully you have one – where you can find any little tool to make your dish perfect, along with advice and suggestions.
Local book shops, where you get to talk to someone who loves books, and can find the perfect how-to one you need for – what? – gardening, writing, art, fashion, architecture, painting, drawing, acting, dancing, and a thousand others. “If we don’t have it, we’ll order it for you” is the unofficial motto of my local book shop.
Note the emphasis on local. They’re small, maybe operating on a shoestring, there for the love of it, not the profit margin. They know you, you know them, and they’re the best when it comes to connecting people.
Finally, let’s remember the corporate giants that contribute to the arts, such as these.
Making connections is one of the best side effects of creativity, don’t you think?
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