strange timing

[somedaybitch]

i'm sitting here at work and found myself zoning out, and while doing so i happened to be staring in the general direction of my vente Starbucks cup. it says:

The Way I see It #184

My father said being an artist was the shortest road to the poorhouse, claiming "real" work is something you don't like. I ignored him through oppositional behavior, later reasoning that only an idiot sets out to find the poorhouse, not to mention devote himself to something he doesn't love. Instead, I discovered an interesting back road to the unknown, and deliberately without a safety net.

--Russell Chatham
Painter, lithographer, author, publisher and restaurateur