Today, I am working on articles (on-line and print) and the first chapter of the new book. I am also preparing for classes and to greet visitors from the new Crystal Bridges Museum when they tour the Eureka Springs School of the Arts tomorrow. I will offer one small thing on the blog today. As shown in the photo above, scissors and paper can be a great design tool for creating symmetrical objects. Fold your paper in half (or more), make your cuts and voilà! Very long gone are the days when children played with paper dolls, and the simple design skills that come from play with scissors are disappearing fast. Those simple activities are great for helping children to develop the spatial sense required for success in geometry and trigonometry. As we now know with ever growing certainty, the hands hold processing capacity for human intelligence. Use them or lose it.