death acceptance fosters life appreciation. Gratitude is the outcome of death acceptance.

Grief has its own timetable. Like water, it will find its way through a crack, seep through a wall, and take down entire structures if we don’t learn to ride the swells.

We’re not responsible for that first bullshit thought. We are responsible for our next thought, the second thought, which we consciously conjure in response to that first thought. Then, we’re responsible for our first action.

Marketing is part of the business and administrative side of your art career; you should tend to this part weekly during the time you set aside for non-creation activities like email, finances, applications, and so on.

Some fears, simply by acknowledging and accepting them, will wither or even disappear.

We have a story about who we are and what we are like. We not only believe it, but we also may operate as if it’s an unmovable truth, the stuff of the universe. It’s unchangeable.

Promoting oneself amounts to asking for a moment of attention or taking up space.

What if, whatever you choose at this moment, you are right where you are supposed to be?

Sometimes a bit of compassion is all we need to change an interaction or our perspective.