How Did He Do That?

  My six year old nephew became enamored with the Jerry Lewis movie "The Nutty Professor." He wanted to know how the professor changed into Buddy Love. I told him, it was special effects. He didn't buy that. He wanted to look up potions. I knew we would get Harry Potter, so we looked up chemistry and we checked YouTube for experiments. He did his own experiments at the kitchen sink using salt, pepper, cinnamon, cocoa and bath powder. Basically, he used anything he could get his hands on.
  We were watching the movie one day and my nephew asked, "What is he?" I was thinking, he's a professor, a chemist, a scientist. My nephew came up with his own answer. "He's a potion artist!"

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I remember

Do you know who has real talent? The people who would paint logos and words on signs or windows. They had to get it perfect. They could not paint outside of lines. It had to look as if it was stamped on. They may not have been Pollock. Their work may not have hung in the Louvre, but they were artists.

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