by It’s always so strange
how creativity comes at such seemingly random times
abruptly waking up
in the middle of the night
because something
needs to be communicated
Sometimes it feels like
I don’t really have control over what I want to say
or when it comes,
and my body
is merely
a temporary vessel
for an idea
rather than the originator of the idea itself.
maybe none of this is my own
of course
I write some words
but they don’t always
come from me
my mind thinks thoughts
without a conscious choice
energy flows to my fingers
who know what to do
like an employee
following orders from a boss
tori's thoughts 
I’ve been a professional cartoonist for 4 decades now….I’m semi retired, and living in a state where cowboys don’t pay for ‘purty pitchers” because they feel it’s a hobby. I still get to come up with game ideas and pitch them all of the time, so I am lucky that people still want to see what I come up with, and better still, some companies stake their reputation on ideas that I float to them….I am LUCKY…. only wealthy in the fact that I have a roof over my head that I can easily afford, with a pool. you CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, so enjoy the spoils that come from hard work. Life, is a gift, and one’s purpose is to find their spark, use it to give back to the earth and it’s people, USING the gifts that you naturally possess. Circle of LIFE, Simba.
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