Interview notes 17 (January 2023)

Interview notes (January 2023)

Inspirational words

Interview notes 17 (January 2023)

"Words of inspiration for readers on doing what they love?"

Believe in yourself.

"Follow your bliss." (Robert Bly)

Don't give up. Keep trying. Find a way.

I met a smuggler once, back in the nineties. Nice guy, Don. "Antiquities, and gems", he would emphasize: "Not drugs." Great story-teller. He would get onstage and keep an audience captivated for a hour or more.

Don would say, There I was, in the desert at the edge of South America, carrying illegal emeralds, with four native guides I couldn't understand and didn't trust. And if I managed to reach the ocean, and hire a boat, and head towards the United States, more problems would come at me. Problems and more problems inherent in smuggling. And so smugglers have a creed:

"There is always a way."

There is always a way, yes. There has to be. Art demands it.

Don't give up. Keep trying. Find a way.

Believe in yourself.