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About Us
HI everyone, sorry it's been so long since my last blog. Amy and I may live in our Enchanted World, but that doesn't mean that we're floating around in gossamer clothing saying "I love you!" all the time.
Hmmm. Well, actually, we do wear Amy's incredible "Spiritual Couture(TM)" jackets a lot because they look great and feel even better to wear. And we say "I love you" to each other all the time, but we're also always working, like all good entrepreneurs, artists and just about everybody else these days when it is so hard to make a living, let alone save for the future.
As I said in my previous blogs, in my world view (based on the work of Zecharia Sitchin) human beings were created to work and work for others. However, that was then and this is now and I'm a great believer in working for yourself. I've looked at work from all sides now. To keep the musical paraphrasing going with apologies to Frank Sinatra (and Joni Mitchel for the last one),I've been a pauper, a poet, a pirate (supposedly in another lifetime), a puppet (of my addictions), and I'm working on being king of my Enchanted World (hey, I'm a Leo Rising, so can king be far behind on my To Do list?) I've been a bodyguard for Michael J. Fox, a Location Manager for feature films, a hot dog slinger in Coney Island and in one of those little wagons in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I've loaded forty foot trucks to the brim with heavy hi-fi speakers, I've been a performing rock 'n roll musician and singer songwriter since I'm 14, I've shined rings in the 47th Street Jewelry District of New York City as my first job after being homeless and literally sleeping on skids in a printing factory, I've worked for board at Jams rehearsal studios at 10 East RD Street where KISS (known then as Wicked Lester) spent their formative year or two, and I've worked as an author/book packager/agent/lawyer/secretary/bookkeeper/shlepper for me and Amy and THAT's my favorite job. A bad day working for yourself is better than a good day working for others, though I often forget that when things get tight either time or money-wise.
My advice to everyone who doesn't like their job is to stay where you are but use your free time to work for yourself or to work toward working for yourself. Amy and I feel that all honest work is noble, you can be an artist at whatever you do, and that a world full of visual artists and writers exclusively wouldn't last long unless, like us, they all planted vegetable gardens, but that wouldn't really help us all survive.
One thing is obvious about the world is that we need everyone to approach their jobs as artists, no matter what they do, and that means using the challenges they face to make life better for all, not as an excuse to go crazy and be mean to people, and to approach their job as noble and a way to grow spiritually by honoring everyone that they come in contact with.
Seeing vendors, customers and co-workers as anything less that fellow human beings worthy of respect and careful treatment is the wrong way to live your life. Ooooo! In this PC world of Political Correctness I actually had the temerity to tell someone what is the wrong way to live their life!!!! Poop! I''m shaking with fear. Tough luck, if you don't like it because I'm living my life by the Golden Rule and it didn't get Golden by being wrong.
Even if you work for yourself, if you don't see everyone as deserving of respectful treatment you are doing yourself and the world a disservice. We, the few, the proud, the living, are all in this boat together. One day we will all be dead and, unless something terrible happens, we are going to die on different days and in different years.
Let's vow to spend the time we have left on this planet making all of our interactions such that when a person leaves our presence, whether our presence is virtual or In Real Live (IRL), they are better for spending time with us than they would have been had they not spent time with us. This is the most spiritual thing you can do, believe it or not. But I didn't originate that belief, Edgar Cayce did speaking from trance. More on him tomorrow!
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