We go hard.
Hard means confronting fear. The real kind. The little kid injuries buried so deep they can never be healed, only managed.
To tell your story takes a thousand agonized victories no one else sees.
Creativity goes down alone.
Masters go where most dread to look:
- Abraham raises the knife over Isaac
- Macbeth hears the witches say king
- Alyosha, a monk, says shoot him
- Cormac’s wolf fights for her life
- Toni Morrison sees a dead girl walk up from the river
Stories are born from stories. The sensei honors his sensei, who honored his, back thousands of years. I owe them everything.
No matter how absurd, dishonest and vile it gets, we make it fuel. Art. Medicine.
Why? To do what we were put here to do. Stay dignified no matter how jet black it gets.