I first learned that words affect our perception of reality on a summer day in 1982. I was seventeen, and having a conversation with Ernst Halpern, the fifty-six year old owner of Continuity Arts, an art supply store I frequented. Ernst was an artist and former art teacher. He gave me free art lessons by critiquing my drawings and later, my paintings. O…
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