My inner muse recently reminded me,
NEVER let a day go by without accomplishing some little thing in the art you are nourishing in your life. Great things (or even “just” good–within range of the best of one’s talent) are only possible when many, many little things are built upon day in and day out, consistently.
More than talent, blood and toil and sweat and tears: that’s what real chops are built by.
“[T]he art” could as easily refer to any craft or useful skill and not necessarily be tied to what are usually thought of as “the arts”–graphic, dramatic, literary, musical. Being better than just a good carpenter requires constant striving to be better.
I need to listen to myself more, I think…
Don’t we all?
Well, yes, Perri, except when it clamors for “just one more piece of cake and bowl of ice cream!”
*heh*
You should listen to yourself more. Just don’t answer yourself so often.
Ah, but Mel, I have to answer me, ‘cos I’m one of the few people I understand… I think… 😉