The Artist Pilgrimage
As we get older it is in our nature to reflect on our past the processes that took place in our personal development as a human being. Searching for confirmations that we have done our contribution in our societal role in making a difference. The marks we make along the way are meaningless if we do not learn and grow to ultimately come to know the truth to live it out. Kathe Kollwitz came to a point in her life where she began to reflect on these very things in, “the relationships between aging, art, and spiritual growth.” *1There are dairy interties that date back to 1910, that can give anyone chills when reading them knowing what events would soon take place after. “This period of my life seems to me very fine. Great piercing sorrows have not yet struck me; my darling boys are growing more independent. I can already see the time when they will break loose from me, and at the moment I look forward to it without sorrow…” *2 There phases of maturity that people reach as t
