Cleaning my messages on my phone to create more space for more messages. Ouroboros!
I copied/paste from a message to a family member.
Some advice
Have you ever heard the phrase, “You are what you eat!”
There is another semi lie, “you are what you do.” When you retire you realize, “that you are what you think” and everything flows from that.
Your art doesn’t define you. You define your art.
I’ve seen drawings where the horse is hitched to the wagon, pushing it forward. It doesn’t work that way. You are the horse, and the wagon is your world, your art, everything… and it just follows you where ever you go.
The issue is that you must choose your path everyday, if you don’t, someone else will choose it for you, and you will be living someone else’s life.
You don’t have to be perfect, but sailing teaches you a lesson, if you don’t make tiny corrections early on, you won’t make the port you desire.
Freezing up, not moving the wheel, will guarantee a crash. Or sailing off the edge of the world, hahaha!
As a philosophical exercise, pick a reasonable goal, outline the steps that would normally assist you in getting there, then each day, for a month, assess how well you have done. Then make the goal bigger.
Hehe, I once removed the word coincidence from my vocabulary. It changed everything for me.
That was 15 years ago.
Everything is a plan, either my plan, or others. Some that are good, some that are bad. But nothing is by chance. Or luck.
Not making a plan, is a plan!
Then there is the old Irish saying, “Do you want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans!”
The Arabs often end every paragraph with, “in-shallah”, meaning “God willing.”
Here’s another thought. What is peace? The Hebrew word for peace is “Shalom”, the root word that creates shalom is “sacrifice”. There is no peace without sacrifice. A soldier knows this.
See what happens, you ask a simple question and you get word diarrhea from me.
I’m old and slightly demented I think the answer is somewhere in between everything that l’ve heard from everyone.
I prefer to think a bit, before I do. Take a beat!
It is complicated. Self-identity is always thick… with ego goo. The answer will always be the thing that works.
When I find something, it’s always in the last place I’ve looked. And I have never been lost… just misdirected for a few years.
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Cleaning my messages on my phone to create more space for more messages. Ouroboros!
I copied/paste from a message to a family member.
Some advice
Have you ever heard the phrase, “You are what you eat!”
There is another semi lie, “you are what you do.” When you retire you realize, “that you are what you think” and everything flows from that.
Your art doesn’t define you. You define your art.
I’ve seen drawings where the horse is hitched to the wagon, pushing it forward. It doesn’t work that way. You are the horse, and the wagon is your world, your art, everything… and it just follows you where ever you go.
The issue is that you must choose your path everyday, if you don’t, someone else will choose it for you, and you will be living someone else’s life.
You don’t have to be perfect, but sailing teaches you a lesson, if you don’t make tiny corrections early on, you won’t make the port you desire.
Freezing up, not moving the wheel, will guarantee a crash. Or sailing off the edge of the world, hahaha!
As a philosophical exercise, pick a reasonable goal, outline the steps that would normally assist you in getting there, then each day, for a month, assess how well you have done. Then make the goal bigger.
Hehe, I once removed the word coincidence from my vocabulary. It changed everything for me.
That was 15 years ago.
Everything is a plan, either my plan, or others. Some that are good, some that are bad. But nothing is by chance. Or luck.
Not making a plan, is a plan!
Then there is the old Irish saying, “Do you want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans!”
The Arabs often end every paragraph with, “in-shallah”, meaning “God willing.”
Here’s another thought. What is peace? The Hebrew word for peace is “Shalom”, the root word that creates shalom is “sacrifice”. There is no peace without sacrifice. A soldier knows this.
See what happens, you ask a simple question and you get word diarrhea from me.
I’m old and slightly demented I think the answer is somewhere in between everything that l’ve heard from everyone.
I prefer to think a bit, before I do. Take a beat!
It is complicated. Self-identity is always thick… with ego goo. The answer will always be the thing that works.
When I find something, it’s always in the last place I’ve looked. And I have never been lost… just misdirected for a few years.
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