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Failure

  1. Illustration: A small sunflower standing tall in a field after a storm, its petals slightly ruffled, the sky clearing behind it. Your worth was never tied to the outcome.
  2. Illustration: A wooden block tower that has fallen over on a playroom rug, next to a new, differently shaped tower being built beside it, soft window light. Fall seven times. Stand up with a new idea.
  3. Illustration: A small sailboat navigating choppy water toward a distant sunny island, its sail full of wind, seagulls overhead. You only lose if you stop trying.
  4. Illustration: An old school chalkboard in an empty sunlit classroom with a simple chalk drawing of a sprouting plant, a wooden desk and a piece of chalk. Failure is a teacher, not a judge.
  5. Illustration: A pair of untied pink ballet shoes lying on a sunlit wooden dance-studio floor, tall windows behind, flower petals swirling and drifting down around them like a dance. Falling is part of the dance.
  6. Illustration: A wall with two pinned artworks side by side: a child's wobbly crayon drawing of a house and a beautiful finished watercolor of the same house. Every expert was once terrible at this.
  7. Illustration: A cracked terracotta clay pot on a wooden shelf with a small bright green sprout growing out through the crack. It didn't work. You still grew.