“I must be an Artist”

[from a conversation with a woman in a recent class]

“I’m an artist!”

“I can’t believe you could tell what that was. If you could tell, I must really be an artist.”

“My dad and my sister are artists. He told me I was an artist too and said he was proud of me…”

“That really means something if the Art teacher says you’re an Artist!”

(I think both of our hearts were bursting in that moment.)