it’s all up to you

it’s all up to you

Nobody is going to help you if you first don’t choose to help yourself. Nothing will ever change if you don’t realize that you are the driving force that will make it happen. You’re not alone. People will come and go along the way and help you do some of the lifting,...
sometimes your worst will do

sometimes your worst will do

Sometimes your worst will do and your most abhorrent effort is good enough. That’s because giving up and not following through is far worse. You can’t edit an unwritten page. You cannot season un unprepared dish, as much as you can’t fix an untried finger technique...
this is the end

this is the end

We celebrate the end of things with deep emotion and tremendous intensity.  It doesn’t matter how big an end it is, like a funeral, or how small the end, like the coming of another New Year.  It doesn’t matter what the end really is because we celebrate it...
why I write

why I write

The subject has never come up. No one has ever asked me why I write although plenty of people are extremely encouraging and amazed that I write and so consistently. I started writing this rough sketches that weave themselves in and out of my mind every day because I...
now

now

Right now. Not tomorrow or next week or after that thing you have to do first, but right now. Right now will work. Right now is a good time to begin something. This very moment is the best moment to revisit an old idea, or a forgotten dream. Right now is as good as...
yeah, I know

yeah, I know

Yeah, I know. You’ve been here before, and yeah, I know it will never work. I mean, you’ve tried and tried, time and time again, and failed, only to find yourself right here, exactly where you were before. It seems that in life nothing ever truly changes. Except maybe...