Lev Yilmaz has created a lovely series of videos and put them on YouTube. This one, “…Take My Shoes Off?”, is the kind of conversation that I would have with Mike. After watching just a few of these videos, I became an instant fan. The cool thing is, you don’t have to schlep through YouTube to watch his videos. You can just buy his books and get a DVD of the videos with it.

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I find such joy when I find a new artist that I enjoy. His videos remind me of childhood when I used to watch a show on PBS where they would read us a story and an artist would draw a scene from the story. Something about these stories seem so real and I just want to watch more.