Slow Down
I don't want to say that this for the better for the future of our species but it may be. The last ten years I have not been able to slow down. Trying to get ahead of the daily struggle to make a living while being an artist has lead me to work harder every year taking on more work and not paying attention to the years passing me by. This is the first time in ten or maybe even fifteen years that I have taken the time to do nothing. I do use that term because I just finished the book for our upcoming virtual book club. I have gotten back in touch with old friends and am closer to my family than I have been since I moved out of my parents' house and my kids moved out of mine. Every once in a while we need a shake up, but I would have liked a shake up that did not kill so many of our fellow travelers on this planet. We do need to create a new value system that believes that happiness can not be bought but can be shared.
