What Matters - the short version

I realize yesterday's post kind of spiraled out of control a bit.  I had a lot to say and I just kind of threw it all in there and hit the "puree" button.

But to me it is all connected.  I guess it's about getting to this point in my life where I feel like I'm stripping away the stuff that is of no use to me and taking the opportunity - while I have it - to do what is meaningful to me.

I think I know myself pretty well by now.  I can spot the bullshit, and I can choose not to step in it. 

And I could spend my days regretting what I didn't take a chance on twenty or so years ago.  But I was a different person back then, and clearly the timing wasn't right.  I feel that it is now. 

I want to find a way to make enough money so that I can quit my job.  I'm starting with this store on CafePress because it seems to be the best way to do the parts that I enjoy - all the creative stuff - and let someone else deal with the customer service part.  I need a break from that.  I just do. 

And that - that is what matters to me at this stage of the game.

Anyway, I hope you'll come over and visit the store from time to time and look around and tell me what you think.  The link is up there on the left, just below my email address.

I've got a lot of images I want to work with - so much to do!  And it's so much more...challenging, fun, rewarding...to work on all of that than it is to sit at my desk at my "real" job and bang my head against the computer monitor all day long. 

Change is good.