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There are many parts to the Art Challenges on Fine Art America hosted by Abbie Shores.\u00a0 One major part of the challenge is to create new work each day. Many obstacles can pop up along the way such as computer crashes, no internet connection, or even illness.\u00a0 However, another part of the challenge is to be creative. To think outside the box.<\/strong><\/p>\n Aircraft was the theme for one of the Art Challenges that I participated in last month. \u00a0Many airplanes and helicopters were being posted.\u00a0 I had posted one of each of those during the three day challenge.\u00a0 I decided to think about aircraft a bit differently on one of the days. Today\u2019s blog post is about that image and its backstory.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sailboat In The Sky by Kathy K. McClellan is a photographic image created for Day One of Challenge 20 (Theme: Aircraft).<\/strong><\/p>\n Picture it: It was the year 2008. Three adult humans and one young canine in an empty field.\u00a0 All three individuals had lost a lifetime of possessions in a natural disaster only a few years before.<\/strong><\/p>\n It was a clear day with no clouds in sight when all of a sudden one of the humans started running wildly holding a nylon sailboat overhead.\u00a0 Within seconds the wind caught the ancestral aircraft and lifted it higher and higher.<\/strong><\/p>\n There they were.\u00a0 Poor as a church mouse but rich as royalty as the flying sailboat brought simple, childhood joy into their lives, even if only for a few minutes on that clear, sunny day.<\/strong><\/p>\n A Sailboat In The Sky. A source of joy and wonderment on a clear but windy day.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When was the last time you had an obstacle try to prevent you from meeting a challenge in life?<\/strong><\/p>\n Did you think outside the box to meet that challenge?<\/strong><\/p>\n Did thinking differently, outside the box, help you to meet the challenge?<\/strong><\/p>\n My hope is that each of us will meet our life challenges head on and successfully complete those challenges even when we need to change our way of thinking and get creative with our solutions to overcoming those challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n