October 3, 2024 - Hi everyone, I'm on SABBATICAL. Orbit Books (our parent company, Hachette, actually) has a sabbatical program where after 15 years of working for the company you get a month off to do something healing/educational and heal a chunk of burnout. And I've been in Italy! I'm about halfway through, so I'll do a recap of everything and thoughts on sabbatical in general next month. For now, here's a repost of a fave episode on my ongoing Turning Points series, where we look at a someone we all think of as a "Master" and talk about realities and problems they faced that shows that Art Masters were just like us. So here's Turning Points: John Singer Sargent — I picked him because I packed my watercolors for this trip and I plan to attempt to paint…