For Love, People, Place, and Hope

At heart I have a spirit that will not yield.

I work when the time is right and value my creative freedom over financial reward. It has always been this way for me. My work is unconstrained by the demands of others. I express what I want, in the way I want, and when I want. My downside is that I work alone, intensely, relentlessly.

I work for love, for people, place, and hope.

"I"

I: the singular first person pronoun; myself, the speaker, or my imagined self.

Much of what I write here is written from this point of view. It is not always my point of view. Placing speech marks around the letter, the word, encourages me to think more carefully about its meaning.

"I" declares distance from me to you and invites your scrutiny. My hope is that by expressing my thoughts as I, you are more willing to come closer, and that "we" are given chance and voice.

The Truth About Lies

I lie to reach my objective. This may be in the interest of myself, or others.

I lie to protect. I lie about my actions, my behaviour, and my past. I lie about others, I lie to myself.

I fail to recognise my lies and call them something else. I search for lies in others.

One lie leads to another.

The less I lie, the more in truth I gain.