I read this blog entry over the weekend (http://dianekawasaki.blogspot.com/2013/09/shit-happens-why-i-left-la.html), and it has repeatedly popped up in my brain since. Los Angeles is a difficult place. This business is impossibly strange– how things actually get accomplished remains a mystery. And every decision seems like a risk. So, it’s no wonder that this part, in particular, resonated
I’ve heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result (except when playing the lottery). Now, while I’m quite certain that’s not the actual, clinical definition of insanity, I can see the point. For instance, if I hide in my apartment from the world,
There is nothing so consuming as an unrealistic desire. I’m not even sure it matters what it is: unattainable career goals, inappropriate men, getting into a size 2 again…. All of these things have the power to take the concentration off of realistic and necessary activities and put it firmly in dreamland. I have made