but not as cute as Amy

Hilariousness from Bookie Woogie!

knock, knock

I’ve noticed through the years how few opportunities are convenient. They don’t come at the perfect time, or with a path you can follow blithely. Most of the time opportunities ask as much from you as they give. 

One could almost render this equation as a formula: Opportunity equals pain in the neck, or: O=PIN. Yes, of course you have to keep yourself open to opportunities. Not a free lunch though.

I suppose it is a good time to blame the balance of life. That colossal slacker Lao Tzu warns us redundantly about avoiding high aspirations: “Those who stride cannot maintain the pace.” “Keep stretching the bow, you repent the pull.” “Do enough without vying, Be living, not dying.” Yadda, yadda.

And yet, the regrets I do have are the opportunities I have not pursued.

I yearn for a calm, peaceful, easy life, but I’ve also hounded myself by a pursuit of Excellence. A thing unattainable because it is a target constantly moving two steps ahead of oneself.  A perpetual frustration machine. A perpetual fascination.

is this not happiness?

Inspired by Chin Shengt'an's Thirty-three Happy Moments, 
I present to you one of mine. What a great way to begin 
my morning!

almost famous

I've been on the blogosphere lately:

Seven Imposible Things

MSN Bound

Chinook

da real thing

Check it out-- my first book!

Amy, Amy, Amy!

Hey, it's Amy!

The Wonder Book video

sudden reappearance

If anyone has noticed my absence of over a month, it was all due to trying to meet my deadline of final art for my first self-authored children's picture book, 'A Pet For Petunia".

Petunia lobbies her parents for a pet skunk. (They are pretty cute after all.) Will she succeed? You'll have to wait until January of 2011 to find out.