TL;DR - do the really important stuff, don't worry about the rest.
> From: "a_change_of_plans_at_yahoo.com [SkunkworksAMA]" <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com>
>I've got a real limited amount of energy, ... so I'm trying to get as much done as possible on as many things as possible while I can...
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I haven't been participating online much recently as real life keeps me busy - we all have limited energy (our limits vary) and time and it can be difficult to decide where your time and energy should be spent. I've had to 'clean up' after two people in the last few months who've left their 'worldly woes' to those who are left behind - it makes you look around at what you have and ask "what is really important"; what am I leaving? It is nice to clean up your 'mess', but it can also be important to be happy with your legacy - what are you going to be remembered for?
Looking around, I'm starting to wonder if I should just throw away many of the things that I've accumulated - if they were really important, I'd be using them. Just give away things that 'sap energy'; wasting thought energy and time deciding how and when I'm going to deal with them (we all have those "gunna do it" items). Cluttering up rooms and filling up boxes; I enjoyed them then, but do I really want, let alone need them now?
> there are no guarantees I'll get a kidney...
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Talk about the 'decision is out of your hands'; all you can do is take care of what you have and hope something comes your way (who ever the poor person is whose number 'comes up' sooner). We're all hoping you get a third chance on life - it would probably make you a very limited number of people who have had second time round transplants!
>I've got a friend helping me ink the last of the pillow pictures, and I might have him tackle the extra Skunkworks pages, since I'm gonna have to redraw them.
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That's great you've access to someone who can do the work, but a bummer that so much material was lost. So frustrating to have to re-do things that were perfectly fine, until...
> At this time, both the "Penance" and "Caterwaul" stories are held back, although if I can, I may just release a printed (text-only) version of the "Penance" story, which has been written in longhand anyway (as a novel).
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I'd read the text version. Graphic novel would be awesome, but maybe releasing it as text and if time and energy permits releasing as a graphic novel in due course?
> All future artwork is on hold, although I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to ink some of those commissions from the Kickstarter.
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May need to see if you can get help on those, as it could be quite a while till you get control again- probably some stupid medication you are taking to control something else and having a side effect. :-(
>Also working on getting my 2 other bikes built, because the titles will all be transferred to my mother once I'm gone, and it's easier to sell a complete bike than it is to sell a box of parts!
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If you've got your 'end plan' paid for, then selling the bikes is just a bonus. I had to get all the possessions of one of the fellows valued before I could deal with anything - his whole worldly possessions were written off as a $900 fire sale value - including the caravan he was living in. It has really got me asking myself "what really matters"...
Sorry to sound dour, but I've always "felt the world rolling"; do the bits that will make the most difference, everyone else will deal with the rest. Do what you love to do while you can, you never know which card fate will play next.
Scrapper, Black Dragon, make hay while the sun shines, for when the rain comes, you don't know for how much or how long...
Received on Sun Jul 27 2014 - 03:42:37 CDT