It’s Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

Always observed on January 31st, Inspire Your Heart With Art Day is a day to ponder how art affects your heart. Art is valued and appreciated for all sorts of reasons.

Of the broad spectrum of art created in the world, the pieces that move us to tears or cause us to burst out into joyous laughter remain with us for a lifetime. Whether we are touched by music or see into an artist soul through their work, art has the power to change us, to inspire our hearts.

Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

encourages us to explore the many genres of art and let it inspire us.

HOW TO OBSERVE

• Visit an art gallery.
• Read a good book.
• Listen to music.
• Attend a ballet performance
• Start your masterpiece.
• Teach someone how to play an instrument.
• Attend an art lecture.
• Explore a new technique.
• See an inspirational film.
• Share your art with others.

Confront Your Clownish Fears...

Coulrophobia • \KOLE-ruh-fobe-eeyah\ • Noun - An extreme fear of clowns.

The psychiatrist’s suggestion to his client, who was being treated for chronic coulrophobia. “Confront your fears, go to the circus,” he intoned. “If the circus performers attack,” he continued, “always go right for the juggler.”

Give Me a Kiss, You Big Lug...

Cosmeticize /coz-MET-uh-syze/ Verb – To make (something unpleasant or ugly) superficially attractive.

Lipstick on a pig

Cosmeticized ugly

You wanna kiss it?