Summarize

"Art has the potential to summarize things...
It passes to the next generation knowledge: feeling.
It's part of who we are."

Isabel Allende

I don't understand myself and my gifting's well, but what I do understand is that I am not detail oriented in my knowledge. I like general biology but even that got a bit too detailed with name and clade memorization, molecular biology was too detailed in it's protein and order of event listings, music gets too detailed when the theory behind it gets discussed, paining gets too detailed when the different brushes, strokes, and mediums come into play. Yet still I love biology and art. I love the big picture: I've always been big picture oriented and I've always felt as though that makes me an unintelligent person because of that fact: college is about delving into the details professionally. But I learned something about myself when Isabel said that. I found a real value in who I am: I went from someone unintelligent and ungifted to someone with a valuable skill set that helps communicate knowledge and who we are through feeling.

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