![]() Nothing is broken, nothing needs to be fixed. If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. “You can make a piece of wood short but you can’t make a piece of wood long.” You can’t force a square peg into a round hole. We’d laugh at the jungle of nonsense we’ve both mapped our way through. I’d love to talk to the artist he has become forty years after making that statement. It was a statement of arrival – of knowing – and, after a few years of living, it becomes apparent to artists and seekers alike that arrival is an illusion. “I can take forty years figuring it out for myself or I can go to school for three years.” It was a statement made sensible by his youth. Roger once told me that he went to graduate school to expedite his learning. ![]() The universal quest is always to find yourself. It is the rare bird that knows who they are right out of the chute. ![]() All the best stories, the simple wisdom tales, tell us that the thing we seek is with us all along and yet, we need to go looking anyway. Trying to change the world, fighting ogres, slaying dragons. I use the term ‘fools errand’ a lot because I’ve been on so many of them myself. An actor can only do one thing at a time. Most of my mentors, the people I admire most, lived their way into simplicity.
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