this path

If that sounds awkward – and inefficient – it was all part of the plan: they were discovering what could work, even in such adverse conditions, and cutting no corners.

One where achievement isn’t the default, and where smallness isn’t a failure to grow, but a new way to define what greatness really looks like.

My father asked me, “Why do you always have to live on the edge?”

you’ve got to find a way to be inspired by your life.

My friend (and contributor) Sienna told me to treat Scary Boots as a duty. Not a duty to myself, but to the world. It’s my duty to follow the vision I have and share Scary Boots with the world. I like that.

“You didn’t represent failure. You represented confusion. Most people would pick a side. Either be a writer and hang out with the writers, if you can, or, if you can’t, then leave the place where the writers are and make common cause with the workers and only the workers. Laugh about the guests and not care about anything else while you’re on the j... See more

to not seek being universal, and to know that if you’ve stayed true to your voice, the same way we meet our own friends, we will find our people and cultivate that world.