![The Arts](https://www.swc.edu/wp-content/plugins/mindshare-api-master/lib/mthumb.php?src=https://www.swc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2575050.jpg&w=700&h=&q=90&a=c&zc=1&f=&s=0&cc=&ct=1)
Painting by Laura Lansrud-Lopez, M.S., M.A., LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, ACS
Words by Deborah John, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LPAT
I wrote this poem to explain the way that I experience all art forms as deeply connected.
The Arts connect and move the soul to places we long to be. Ultra-blue or grape-dark sky Drifting thru Obscure fogs Fleeing fires being consumed In climbing and dancing feeling free To know humanness and divinity.