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Saturday Mar 08, 2003
Last Days in LA
Toward my last days in Los Angeles some years back when I was living in the Hollywood Hills, I had a moving sale of various items, not art. A bearded man came to the door, looked around quickly, and went directly to an item leaning against one of my easels.
“How much is that,” he asked.
I said: “Do you know what this is?”
Thursday Mar 06, 2003
As Luck Will Have It
I heard this Chinese folktale many years ago and its meaning stuck with me as a true friend.
A man named Sei Weng owned a beautiful mare, which was praised far and wide. One day this beautiful horse disappeared. The people of his village offered sympathy to Sei Weng for his great misfortune. Sei Weng said simply, “That’s the way it is.”
Wednesday Feb 26, 2003
No Dharma Bum
I had come out of successful meeting with a producer in Los Angeles.
At one point in our meeting, he turned to me and uttered those immortal words: “Hey, y’know, I’m a big Hollywood producer.”
Sunday Feb 23, 2003
Wake Up!
In “The Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka shocked readers with a grotesque fable about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into an insect, which dovetails with the Buddhist world view of rebirth, or transmigration of the soul.
Is this possible?
Monday Feb 17, 2003
Know Where You Stand
"It’s better to be the bottom of the top than the top of the bottom.”
—so said the master
If you think about it, it makes sense. If you’re honest, it opens doors.
