I love the beautiful poetic quotes you opened with, and I felt the points you were making so deeply. As someone who wrestled with a fraught childhood and who has always identified as an artist, what you wrote resonates with me. It is my prayer that we work toward becoming a society where children are celebrated for being children, nurtured in their play, and where the role of art and creativity are always valued and cherished on a deep societal level. For that is the soul of a society.