cultural commentary from the desk of Don Shewey
WORK
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
–Robert Benchley
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
— Wendell Berry
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I don’t suffer from perfectionism. The thing is you mustn’t be precious about things, and then you can get a lot done.
— Derek Jarman
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