You are immediately assessed by what type of car you drive—and that’s not only in Los Angeles where cars are worn like jewelry.

I certainly appreciate the mobility my car gives me, but advertisers would like you to believe you can buy freedom in a hot set of wheels. We’ve all seen those commercials. Since you’re really buying large monthly payments, do you feel liberated from angst, or only your money?

Being judged by our possessions is as ancient as our earliest ancestors. Have we learned anything at all in 5,000 years of history? If you were suddenly stripped of all your goodies, who would you be? Have you invested in the core of your own self, or are you a by-product of what you presently own, rent, or lease?

Think about it, but not for too long.

Arshile Gorky: the Man, the Time, the Idea

by Harold Rosenberg

Excerpt via: Questia —the online library for research.

The Artist as Intellectual

By whatever measure one ranks the founders of contemporary American abstract art, Arshile Gorky has a place on the top row. In different ways, he influenced several who were to become most influential: de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, Nakian.

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Keep this thought in your heart, mind and soul and you will discover magic: Truth is not out there; truth is within you.

If you want the truth, you will find it.

I bought a Peugeot quartz wristwatch a few months ago. It featured a simple yet elegant face with an analog dial and the day of the month.

It may sound like an expensive timepiece, but the watch, made in China, was on sale for under fifty dollars at Macy’s. I’d wear it every now and then and although it kept accurate time, the day of the month seemed to be off on a couple of occasions as the numerical date display indicated it was a day earlier. Okay, I thought, another defective product. I put the watch back in its case with the store receipt. I went to sleep.

The next morning the watch problem had been resolved while I had slept. When my eyes opened, I realized the watch didn’t know if a month had 28, 29, 30, or 31 days in it. It was up to me to manually change the date accordingly. I not only saved myself a trip to the mall, I again proved to my self that when you release a problem, the answer will reveal itself to you in good time.

A new year marks yet another tick on your cosmic clock.

Time is something you have been given to spend; if you reflect on it, you see that time is the ultimate currency. You have been allotted a certain amount of time and how you spend it is up to you.

Knowing your time is finite is a good kick in the pants for putting life in perspective. Avoid pettiness, dispel nuisances, and focus on achieving your dream—a passion you must realize for your own self.  No one else will do it for you.