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Why do you think people become preachers and teachers anyway! I know how easy it is to tell others how to be good, after all a lot of my drawings and commentaries are all about that, and I think it’s a pretty cool thing to do with my life.
One year ago today at the NDD – Resentment is Like Taking Poison
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So, I suppose in this case, intentions are just resolutions set at other times of the year, right?
A friend of mine, Jeanne C. , says she doesn’t make resolutions, she just sets attainable goals. What’s the difference? Feedback please.
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Drawing and questions by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 1835-1910, American humorist
It was 70º ƒ and sunny with a mild breeze friday evening as I ran my 4 mile training run. 12 hours later it was 29º and sleeting with a 25 mph winds and our long training run was cancelled. Tomorrow it should be 50º and sunny and we will run, dag nabbit!
Our dogs got into a huge fight last night. I heard it as opened my car door after coming from doing a photo shoot. At first I thought it might be one of them having a fight with a raccoon or something. But when they were going at each other like all hell had broken out. I yelled (useless), I kicked (useless) I got a garden utensil and used that to pry them apart. (eventually successful).
But all those things were the WRONG thing to do. They don’t care about you yelling. They don’t feel the pain of a kick right then, too much adrenalin pumping. And a garden utensil, well, it is dangerous!
What I found out later I should have done was take hold of their back legs and pull them away and in a circle. If you don’t have two people to do it to the two dogs at the same time, you should get a leash and put it around the abdomen/hind area of one and pull them away, tying them to a fence or something, then go to the other and do the hind leg technique.
The whole thing made me think. Besides thinking about how stupid I was (and how the dogs suffered more than if they had just kept fighting) I saw how completely and utterly intense they both were. They both were intent on the kill for the most part. it was scary to see. The smaller dog (wiggle dog) was really the aggressor, while stumpy dog was holding on tight! If you extrapolate that behavior to human pursuits, who is going to succeed in them? If you are in a competitive realm, then the amount of fight you have (willingness to pursue your goal, in the face of obstacles and setbacks) is more important that your natural talent and your background and connections. I am talking long-term here, not short-term.
So, don’t bite anyone, and don’t hurt them, but keep the belief and intensity of a fighter who knows they can succeed if they keep at it. Then your size, metaphorically speaking, will not matter all that much.
Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Author
Being able to read isn’t a passport to anything. Reading is.
Know what ‘wabisabi’ means? I didn’t until this morning when a new
friend and I had a discussion about the beauty of what is, imperfections
and transience and all. Look it up.
“The person who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the person who can’t read them.” – Mark Twain, American Author, 1830-1910
While away from my studio I am posting vintage napkins of 1998-2004.
That is one of the hardest things about growing older, your ignorance
diminishes. In most things that is good. It is good to be more knowledgeable,
more educated, less bound by superstition or childish fears. But in the area
of career and effort, especially of the creative variety, ignorance of what
can’t be done, what shouldn’t be tried, what hasn’t ever worked, can allow
you to attempt the impossible. And that is the only way the impossible is
ever achieved, by attempting it!
So, stay ignorant of your alleged limitations and go for it.
One of our cats is nearing the end of her life. In honor of her and her best
friend, my step daughter, I am going to do a few drawings about pets this week.
“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.” – Mark Twain
“All You Need In This Life Is Ignorance And Confidence, And Then Success Is Sure.”- Mark Twain
I take this to be a positive and a negative. Much success comes from the efforts of those who are too ignorant to realize they aren’t likely to make it. Because of that ignoring of the cards being stacked against them they actually overcome the odds and succeed.
Drawing @ 2022 Marty Coleman | napkindad.com
“Everybody Talks About the Weather But Nobody Does Anything About It.” – Mark Twain
Maybe more now than in his day, eh?
