Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty polluting energy-intensive business.
No there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and yes I know how it can help from time- to-time.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Some people won't go the extra mile and then on their birthday when no one makes a fuss they feel neglected and bitter.
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning truth beauty.
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
One must learn if one is to see the beauty in Japan to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex variable relations it can extract beauty alternative topographies ugliness and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.