Signature Works

Children play at the Make Way For the Ducklings sculpture in Boston.

    Many artists create a signature work, regarded as their best achievement.
    Sculpture Nancy Schon created Make Way for the Ducklings (seen in photo). It occupies a spot in the Public Gardens of Boston. Children throng to the statues.
    Musicians create signature songs. Led Zeppelin recorded a masterpiece called Stairway to Heaven.
    Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, described as a tour de force.
    Author Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden, his classic.
    Signature works shouldn't only apply to literature, objects of art, and their creators. Nor must these works be famous. Signature works should cite accomplishments-of-a-lifetime made by everyday people.
    In our lives, have we each done something that made world a better place? Those actions might someday represent our signature works. Or have we merely gone through the motions of life, without making an impact?