Little Elie: CooCoo, why is it not painted? Let me help you color it. (She took some markers and drew some stars…)
WW: (in my head, “it is not colored in because it is in the process of becoming.”)

Later on, I undo some of Elie’s markings. Her stars faintly shining through. I like them.

However, keep going. Don’t give up yet. It is only through creating a large volume of work that the gap be bridged—the gap between recognizing good work (taste) and producing good works.

(paraphrase from Ira Glass on Storytelling #3.)

Be Fruitful in Every Good Work

Everything I do always come back to me. — Stefan Sagmeister. My response: Be Fruitful in Every Good Work.

If you could sustain your interest in what you are doing, you are an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional life, perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in their Third Act—you sort of get tired, and indifferent and sometimes defensive. And you kind of lose you capacity for astonishment. And it’s a great lost because the world is a very astonishing place. I think what I feel fortunate about is that I am still astonished. That things still amazed me. I think that’s the great benefit in the arts that the possibility for learning never disappear—where you basically have to admit you’ll never learn it.

from Milton Glaser

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