Healing Through Art

When 85-year-old Gerry Fairbanks sits down in front of a blank canvas, she says her paintbrush might just as well be a magic wand. “Painting is magic to me,” she said during an oil-painting class at Cypress Court retirement community in Escondido, Calif. “To start off with a blank page and all of a sudden you have something?

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