Concentrate on doing the best you can. There is never any shame in what that produces. I love the work of Rochr, Hobbit, and others, and although I have said it in jest, I do not really want to be them. I want to be myself. I envy their skill, and that is something I may never equal, but I'm working at honing my own skills. Their art comes from inside them, an expression of their souls, what people call talent. If I can manage to do the same, to bare my soul through art, then I'll be satisfied to just be myself. A major artist, a minor artist, a crappy artist, whatever I turn out to be, I AM concentrating on doing the best I can. John

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy