She squeals. Utterly frustrated. At just two years, she cannot accomplish what the elder brother and cousins do with ease. Red-faced and teary-eyed, she petitions mother for assistance. Mother knows that time passes quickly and soon elder brother and cousins and baby girl play alike.

Repetitiously, mother teaches and trains. She claps and praises. Baby girl stumbles, cries, and tries again. The natural process of "growing up"…

A really awesome technique in art is to make a gray-scale drawing. The goal of the drawing is to gradually move the picture from black to white. Check out this photo up close. Do you know what those things are? No, not spiders. Eyeballs! The eyeballs in this picture begin as just a clearly black section on the paper. Then, the actual object emerges and more than one of those eyeballs is…