The Slice: Time to freshen up the fridge?

I realized something while over at my mother’s place last weekend.

Her primary refrigerator art, the colorful work of her great-granddaughter in California, must be almost 10 years old.

I’m pretty sure the artist, Mallori, is a teenager now. In any case, it has been a long time since she painted the piece adorning my mom’s fridge.

That got me thinking about supply and demand.

Surely there are people in the Spokane area who do not currently have a reliable source of little kids’ artwork with which to decorate their refrigerators.

And it seems like a good bet that many children hereabouts produce more art than their families can ever hope to display.

So what if we got the two groups together, so to speak?

The Slice can act as the clearinghouse. If you would like to receive little-kid art, mail me your name, address and phone number. And if you know of some generous children who would be pleased to donate their original masterpieces to this program, you could help them send the nonreturnable paintings or drawings to me here at the newspaper.

Then I can forward the art to those who have requested it.

Sure, I realize refrigerators can be adorned with things other than children’s artwork. But what’s a day-planner, a Seahawks schedule or vacation photographs compared to a kindergartener’s vibrant painting of her pumpkin-colored cat or a 7-year-old boy’s watercolor dinosaur?

I also understand that some adults would fail to see the appeal of displaying art by a child who is not a relative.

But at least a few older people are acutely aware that each of us is connected to all children in the same way that today is connected to tomorrow.

So I’ll bet there will be some takers.

To tell the truth, I wouldn’t mind having a nice pastoral scene myself.

Today’s Slice question: At what age do early warning signs typically present when an individual has several of the risk factors associated with the potential to become a confirmed homebody?