

HOW SWEET IT TASTES
The real tea on being an artist is that every day you are your own boss and every day you feel like you might get fired. That is to say: nothing is given and nothing is taken for granted. There's a Buddhist story (a Zen koan, if you will) as recounted here (https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-tiger-and-the-strawberry-b73de1dccf19): "Once upon a time, as a man was walking through a forest, he saw a tiger peering out at him from the underbrush. As the man turned to run, he