Second Edition. If we ask some difficult questions about where we stand as a society today and what legacy we are creating for future generations, we come up short on our understanding and living of the arts and how we expose our children to their influence. This book sounds the alarm for the arts and brings up some hard truths about how we live today, and how a true exposure to artistic living and its benefits would better prepare our children for life. Through an examination of the artistic process and how it can be applied to everyday living, we are taken through fire, earth, air, and water to the artistic realm, where we see the face of beauty and its reflection in the mirror of our lives.