You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
—Mary Oliver
In creative work—creative work of all kinds—those who are the world’s working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward. Which is something altogether different from the ordinary. Such work does not refute the ordinary. It is, simply, something else. Its labor requires a different outlook—a different set of priorities…