QotD 8/21- Keep Pressing On (Culture is important!)

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Life pushes at us hard. I get it. Kids, work, school, bills, and taking care of everyone's needs leave us with little time for anything else. But, please, do not forget to keep things creative, free, and beautiful. Support your local arts and artists, whether it is someone else or your own! For today's quick quote, here is JFK on why that is so important.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
-John F. Kennedy

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