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Greetings to you my friend.

Welcome to the 16th installment of The Creative Journey, the experience of one Charles Yerkes, Eadarian Poet, perpetuator, and otherwise mildly creative and excessively modest personage.

What an intense month January was.

Anyone who tells you that all learning of value is done only in schools is lying to you. Not to slight schools or the education one can get there. But they are only a starting point, an equipping station on the pathway of your life.

I strongly encourage all to get at least a college education, but don’t let your education stop at graduation. For new lessons are only just about to begin. Indeed, I hold to the thought that when a man stops learning – he starts dying. We must continually exercise the mind, the brain, or it starts shutting down. What is that old adage… use it or loose it?

But this is a topic for another day. For now though, back to the topic at hand.

This past month I have been learning vast amounts of information that will help me on the way of this creative journey that I am now embarked upon. Digital photography, computer technology, design basics, personal dynamics, marketing, even some psychology, and the list goes on and on and on.

With so much learning happening – observable progress has been slow, sometimes agonizingly so. But it is being made nonetheless. Though sometimes – while in the middle of things it scarcely seems so. But the finished results have made the patient struggle to learn very worthwhile.

I think that sometimes in this “gotta get it done yesterday!” world in which we live, we forget that things take time; that you really can’t rush richness. That contrary to popular thoughts of today, Delay – is right on time.
Perhaps because the lazy and non ambitious among us have often used the right value of delay, patience, and slow progress as a screen to hide behind for so long that they have become synonymous with laziness and slothfulness.

I don’t know, but if so, it is high time we severed that meaning and restored these concepts to their proper place. Though Tums, Rolaids, and a few doctors might not be happy that we do so.

Well my friend, I have rambled enough for one setting.

Until next time.

Live Nobly, Live Well

Charles Yerkes
Eadarian Poet, Perpetuator, Photographer, and Fiddle Player

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