Anyone Who Takes Responsibility For Getting Something

My Mother-in-law Is Obsessed With Clowns.

If You Become So Frightened Of Realities That Are Not Your Own, If You Take Upon Yourselves Tragedies That Do Not Exist In Your Reality, In Your Moment, Then You Weaken Your Position And Weaken The Position, Of Those You Think You Are Helping. You Look About You And You See Only Hopelessness And Helplessness. You Organize Your Reality According To The Tragedies Of The Newspapers!

The Magical Approach Is Indeed The Natural Approach To Life's Experience. It Is The Adult Version Of Childhood Knowledge, The Human Version Of The Animals' Knowledge, The Conscious Version Of 'unconscious' Comprehension.

We Can't Suddenly Quit A Job And Then Race To Find A Form Of Art That Will Pay Off Before The Next Mortgage Payment Is Due. Creating Art Is A Habit, One That We Practice Daily Or Hourly Until We Get Good At It … Art Isn’t About The Rush Of Victory That Comes From Being Picked. Nor Does It Involve Compliance. Art In The Post-industrial Age Is A Lifelong Habit, A Stepwise Process That Incrementally Allows Us To Create More Art.

A Good Job Is Largely Anonymous And Forgotten (but Still Important). A Personal Job, On The Other Hand, Is Humanized. It Brings Us Closer Together. It Might Not Be Remarkable, But It Stands Out As Memorable Because (however Briefly) The Recipient Of The Work Was Touched By Someone Else. Often, Remarkable Work Is Personal Too, But Personal Might Just Be Enough For Today.