Photo by Nozomu Okabe

For some end-of-week reading…

…an exceptionally terrific piece of flash nonfiction by Kathryn Nuernberger,

…laughter, photographed,

…how to get kids interested in art,

…and the inimitable Maya Angelou’s talk for Americans for the Arts:

“Our actors and sculptors and painters and writers and poets must be made to know that we appreciate them, that in fact it is their very work which puts starch in our backbones.”