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“In 1977, the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card sent a draft of his later-to-be award-winning and film-adapted Ender’s Game to the science fiction magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The magazine’s editor Ben Bova wrote back to Card. In the letter, Bova said that, though he liked Ender’s Game, it needed to be cutContinue reading ““I Went Slower.””

“The film editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, II, and III, American Graffiti, etc.) writes in In the Blink of an Eye that every time he test screens a movie, “there’s a lot of what is medically called ‘referred pain’ in the process.” Referred pain is when you experience pain in a partContinue reading “Referred Pain In The Process”

A Part Two to yesterday’s post and a little origin story of how Sawyer came to the Clark household… We rescued Sawyer from a kennel. He was originally bred to be a show dog for an overseas owner in Japan. During Covid, when all the dog shows were cancelled, the owner called the kennel andContinue reading “Unexpected and Unconditional Love”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it upContinue reading “The Full Spectrum Of Emotion”

“A Hard Day’s Night took less than 15 hours from idea to finished record. More Than a Feeling, from Tom Scholz and Boston, took five years. Each pleased their audiences. One is not 1,500 times more valuable than the other. Sometimes, work that requires effort leads to scarcity, and that scarcity can increase its value.Continue reading “Who Cares?”

“Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Even if you could get away with not doing your best, let alone fulfilling your duty, why would you want to?

“Everything is an audition…One of the biggest mistakes I see people make is they are too short-sighted…When I’m trying to build something, I pretend it’s an audition for a bigger stage.” -Turney Duff “The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and he has nothingContinue reading “Everything Is An Audition”

“An actor puts on a mask and knows they are acting. But the hypocrite puts one on without even feeling that it is there.” -Unknown “Actors are the only honest hypocrites.” -William Hazlitt “Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachmentContinue reading “Hypocrite”

“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.” -St. Therese of Lisieux “Thinking about yourself is indistinguishable from suffering. Self consciousness is literally a facet of trait neuroticism.” -Jordan Peterson If you feelContinue reading “Simple Acts Of Love”

“Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well….Never say about anything, ‘I have lost it,’ but say, ‘I have given it back.” -Epictetus, Enchiridion “What do you possess that you have not received?” -1 Corinthians 4:7 “It is not yourContinue reading “The Cure For Entitlement”