Out Create Everything
Think about it. If you have the power to create, you remain undefeated no matter how many defeats you may suffer. I can find no exception.
Month: December 2025
Did You Suddenly Lose Your Power?
That is what not doing art is, if it is because you are not “feeling it.” I would liken that to the door to a stove: You want to heat things up? Open the door; you want to cool it all down? Close the door. This is along the lines of, “Whatever you decide, whether … Continue reading “Did You Suddenly Lose Your Power?”
There Is Little Knowledge
This is quite the opposite of the common supposition that there is too much knowledge in the world. But really. Like I said before and will certainly repeat, hardly anyone knows anything. Honest experts will tell you this, but honest experts are rarer than the many more who will happily inflate their own position. So … Continue reading “There Is Little Knowledge”
Daddy, Why Are You Crying?
You know how children make us be better people. One night my seven year-old, Rebecca, showed me the light agin. Startling, her ice blue eyes and the shining black hair she liked long. I would not call it quite “wavy,” but it was not quite straight and tended to make “wavelets.” My lovely girl, you … Continue reading “Daddy, Why Are You Crying?”
There Is No Such Thing As Realism
By “Realism” I mean in art, and not as in the “There is no such thing as Reality.” That distinction made, I mean to lay out some of the further meanings that hold in common a lack of existence but have yet all happily called themselves “Realists” and their work, “Realism.” (I am using archaic … Continue reading “There Is No Such Thing As Realism”
Perhaps Not The Right Word
“Kaizen” is a fairly modern business term coinage and not traditional Japanese. So I hear. But its meaning is “small effort, repeated.” Perhaps it was some nerd at Toyota who came up with the expression in corporate lit seventy-five years ago. Maybe even it was popularized as pseudo magic Asian philosophy in the West later, … Continue reading “Perhaps Not The Right Word”
Kaizen
That is the word I have been talking about.
Practicing What I Preach
Too busy working on my tool area and boat building bench to write much. As is my wont, I tend not to think much when I work, so I am not doing any “writing’ in advance. I used to “think” all the time when I worked. I have changed greatly that way! This, I realize, … Continue reading “Practicing What I Preach”
When You Feel Bad
That skill you have to string words together with dash? Gone? And how about the power to link phrases longly without exceeding attention spans but rather stretching them so tenuously? You lost that? Because you feel like shit? No Your powers do not diminish with pain. That is willingness. Willingness
The Least Favorite
I have not been procrastinating about posting. I simply have been damn busy outside working, “The Least Favorite” is a trick of mind. As an example, as a kid, when facing a plate of food with an array of items, I would eat the least favorite item first, and so on. I grew up, by … Continue reading “The Least Favorite”