Rollerblading Inline Skating Artist from Vermont Paints with Skates

One of my favorite arrghs is certifications and how much they cost and how they become expected even if the people who know the most about a subject think the certs mostly bogus. Then I was thinking that you can be an artist or musician or lots of things without being certified by anyone. Just be it. One of the best skate instructors we know is definitely not certified (OK I give in and say even if he's certifiable, as they say). Certifications do offer a certain amount of forcing oneself to study or prepare, but when they turn into industries it's kind of sad that the least financially able then are left out of yet another field where they might make an independent living. I'm glad being an artist or musician is still open to all instantly as soon as they create, as I became a photographer the day I took my first photograph, and even if it's not much better than saying a drunkard or a doper, ha! Did anybody say juggler, magician, actor, salesperson for goodness sakes? OK. It's been a long day and I think I'm frazzled.