The Hour is Blue

Extracts from a letter to my boys.

By FARHA GUERRERO

“The strongest lesson I learned about creativity was that it needs to come from within—from you."

"What makes creativity so important in our lives is that I now fundamentally believe it is one of the defining marks of human beings."

"Both of you know that it is your eyes that capture a moment or a scene, but that it comes from something much greater than pressing the shutter button or recording."

"There was a moment in time when I felt I was no longer your teacher, but instead you were mine."

"You began to teach me about life and how to live life, and I am indebted to both of you."

"Art is humanity. It speaks more truth than anything in our real life, and it gives us beauty, as well as the challenge to think deeply.”