I'm not going to call a dog "Dog. " I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person. "
I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.
Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.
There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
I don't know if you've ever been shoved into the bow of a nutshell pram, a boat that is very easily almost liftable with one hand, and quite tippy, and is being piloted by a 12-year-old, but it is the true feeling of having your life in someone else's hands, and it's very precarious.
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.