Both writing and art are ways of finding oneself in the highest sense. The more we know of our own experience, the more we make contact with our present experience of God, the world, other people. Contemporary art and writing deal with the inner world of man as much as with the outer world. The Quaker tradition of keeping a spiritual journal is in the same stream as the self-discovery of Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Gide, Yeats. The Quaker faith in that of God in every man is in the same stream as the best of contemporary child education. My special interest is in applying to adults what I believe most of us would concede to children: that each of us is potentially creative in the arts. I like to think that each of us has not outgrown our own growing point. Unless we keep this growing point sensitive, we die. Too many older adults are already dead. Their husk or hide has stifled their growing point. What we all had as children, what all children have to some degree, the artist and the poet, the visionary, the dreamer, the idealist, keep all their lives.