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Successful creative “work” requires fun.

In order for the book to be successful, the author needs to be having fun when writing it. In order for the film adaptation to work, the filmmaker needs to be having fun while filming it.

The best creative “work” requires fun.

To those that need to hear it: This country is full of big wide open spaces. Ones with plenty of distance between you and anyone else. Perhaps now is the perfect time for you and yours to see them.

“Hey guys, I’m your mom! …Hey guys, I’m your mom! …Hey guys, I’m your mom!”

— Beatrix, age 12, addressing her fish as she feeds them. “They have a three second memory. If I don’t keep saying it, they’ll forget.”

Personally, I’m enjoying the polite bow I’ve decided to adopt in lieu of handshaking. This is how one greets another at my Zen Center as well (in the Japanese tradition). When I offer it, and it is returned, the interaction makes the world seem a little more zen to me.