The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.
You can't receive a living wage unless you work.
We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.
Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.
As a 25 year director of a non-profit program I began to see the need to shift from only doing projectsprograms to also doing policy work.
Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.
The difference between success and failure is work.
You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.
Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.