My history of jumping in and starting on ideas rather than thinking them through is legion. I suppose I just plain fear ideas falling through the cracks far more than I fear the consequences of them being bad. Or poorly executed. Or really, really bad.
Without a doubt, this is a blueprint for an extremely efficient mistake-making assembly line, and I've made a warehouse of them. Especially in my garden, which is where the greater part of my creative energy goes. It is where most of my thoughts and dreams manifest themselves in the form of plants and birds and rocks and things, which are all scattered around out there in the weather for everyone to see.
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AN ANNUAL AFFAIR
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GOLDENSEAL
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RICHARD HAWKE
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