Many of these Undaunted Spirits used creativity to give the dead a voice and to teach their terrors to sing.I use painting to create a world of magical transformations where vivid and connecting things emerge from dark backgrounds.The forces that comfort are animals guides and winged spirits. Bulls and lions are tenderly entwinded with people lending them strength while angels play banjos and dogs guard the moonlit landscape from rooftops.Before I became a psychologist, I was a writer and earned an MFA in creative writing at Boston University where I studied with poet Anne Sexton. This was in 1973 when Sexton was careening toward suicide. An account of this training just came out in a book Creativity and Madness, Vol 2. It is also on my web page www.marybaures.com.