What a splendid head, yet no brain.
— Aesop

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
— George Bernard Shaw

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
— Margot Fonteyn

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
— T. S. Eliot



Exhibitions Continuing @ HW thru Oct 21
gallery hrs Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1 to 4pm

RODNEY TAYLOR



ANDREW REYES




@ HW TONIGHT, 8pm
Omar Tamez & El Encuentro

$8/$6
MySpace


@ HW Tues, Sept 30, 8pm
Pappy Martin's A Love Supreme:
Remembering John Coltrane

$10/$8


@ HW Thurs, Oct 2, 8pm
Jason Kao Hwang's Edge Quartet

$12/$8
Official Website


Opening Elsewhere
• Katherine Sehr @ Nina Freudenheim op Sat, Oct 11, 6-8pm (thru Nov 19)
• Carrianne Hendrickson at Shy Rabbit (Colorado) op Sat, Oct 4, 5-8pm (thru Nov 15)
• MIna Bellivia, Dave Derner, Mike Dominic, Gavin Kenyon, Josh Knoblick, Gina Miccinilli, Brian Porter, Jay Wholley @ Upton Gallery, Buff State, closing reception Thurs, Oct 2
• Priscilla Bowen at Olean Public Library op Sat, Sept 27, 2-4pm (thru Oct 25)
• Gerald Mead: The MacKrell Collage Archive Project @ Springville Center for the Arts op w/ artist talk Sat, Sept 27, 6:30pm (thru Oct 18)
• Lavinia Kirdani @ Sp@ce224, op Fri, Sept 26, 7-10 (thru Oct 4)
• Tom Holt @ Daemon College artist talk Thurs, Oct 2, 4:30pm, op Fri, Oct 3
• Michael Goldberg @ UB Anderson Gallery op Fri, Sept 26, 6:30-8:30pm


2 Deer, 2 Cars, 1 Giant Red Heart

David MItchell @ Big Orbit
op TONIGHT, 8—11pm (thru Nov 22)



Jax Says: "Embrace the ease of sophistication (as you enjoy an assortment of art while listening to a variety of music from Peanut Brittle Satellite, Shapes of States, and MORE!!"

The Last Minute Show
Sat, Sept 27, 9pm to 1am
@ Burnwood Studios
(inside the ex-Architectural Circus, 885 Niagara)
w/ work by Steven Ansell, Jax Deluca, Amy Greenan, Tom Holt, Conn Keogh, Bryan Lohr


Max Streicher @ the Castellani

op w/ artist talk Fri, Oct 3, 5:30-8pm (thru Jan 18)


Priscilla Bowen @ the Olean Public Library

op Sat, Sept 27, 2-4pm (thru Oct 25)


Bruce Adams @ the Center for Inquiry

op Thurs, Oct 9, 7-10pm (thru Dec 24)


Patty Wallace @ Buffalo Science Museum

thru January 4/09


Continuing Elsewhere
• David Schirm & Justin Thompson @ Buffalo Arts Studio thru Nov 1
• OP Art Revisited at the Albright thru Jan 25
• Lyle Ashton Harris @ UB Art Gallery thru Oct 18
• Amanda Besl @ Lemberg Gallery (Ferndale, MI) thru Oct 11
• John Opera @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago)
• Connie Coleman & Alan Powell @ Squeaky Wheel thru Oct 31
• Mark Duquette @ Alleyway Theater thru Nov 30
• Trans-Evolution: Examining Bio Art @ CEPA thru Dec 20
• Carnegie Art Center Members Exhibition thru Oct 17
• Alice O'Malley @ Nina Freudenheim thru Oct 8 Buffalo News
• Michael Goldberg @ Anderson Gallery thru Jan 18
• Paul Alico and Elizabeth Kumrow Capuano @ Chateau Buffalo thru Oct 10
• Charles Houseman @ Meibohm Fine Arts thru Oct 11
• Pictures of Working Life Taken By Working Hands at NCCC thru Oct 10
• Catherine Linder Spencer at Daemon College thru Sept 28
• Gerald Mead at Studio Hart thru Oct 11
• Joel Lewitsky @ Betty's thru Nov 9
• David Schirm, Justin Thompson @ Buffalo Arts Studio thru Nov 1
• Kenn Morgan, Robert Schultz, Robert Minick, Gene Witkowski, Jerry Greenburg, Lukia Costello @ Artspace thru Nov 1
• Rita Argen Auerbach, Stefani Bardin, Priscilla Bowen, Doreen DeBoth, Marion Faller, Jackie Felix, AJ Fries, Courtney Grim, Katherine Gullo, Biff Henrich, Thomas Kegler, Kevin Charles Kline, Ryan Legassicke, Coni Minecci, Michael Morgulis, Barbara Murak, Nancy Pelosi, James Paulsen, John Pfahl, Christy Rupp, Noreen Spurling, Christopher Stangler, John Yerger @ Kenan Center thru Oct 5
• Fine Arts League of Buffalo 55th Annual Juried Open Exhibition @ Art Dialogue thru Oct 10
• Monica Angle, Georgia Trimper, Barbara Baird @ Springville Center for the Arts thru Sept 20
• Max Streicher: Metamorphosis at the Castellani op Fri, Oct 5
• Lukia Costello at The Rabbit Room thru Nov 1
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)


Tom Hughes sent a new website link and the following public service announcement: "I'm working away on a new group of sculpture, hope to show it this winter at my studio/gallery. In the meantime, if any of you artist folks need fours walls and a locking door for a couple weeks sometime soon, give me a shout. It's the world's most casual call to artists."

Tom Hughes Website


"And the piece at the armory titled 'Seized' is Exhibit A in its ethical brief: at the center of the installation is heaped-up trash, including pizza boxes, left behind by government agents who commandeered Mr. Kurtz’s home."

NY Times Cotter


"Elsewhere beefy men wrestle and dive into pools of blue-black nothingness. Against high-key fields of red and orange, half-animal, half-human blobs recline like patients on an operating table or they melt and evaporate."

NY Times Kimmelman


"Knee-deep in tea leaves, the event set lots of people spinning in different tizzies. But beyond the spectacle that is Mr. Hirst’s art, life and career, none of it means much."

NY Times Smith


"It’s a dark ode about the human race’s running out of time, life gone wrong, nature out of control."

artnet Saltz


Earl Palmer 1924—2008

NY Times obit


Norman Whitfield 1940—2008

NY Times obit


Something I listened to this week...

I've read things that lump Art Brut in with other recent pseudo art rock bands like Franz Ferdinand, but I think FF are just tedious and awful while I've been enjoying the hell out of this album for the past year. Here's my favorite description of them: "brilliantly simple, cleverly stupid..." Just pretentious enough to be funny without annoying you. Savvy lyricism, sometimes VERY savvy. Great vocals that are ever so slightly smug. Solid, satisfying riffs. Sometimes noisy, sometimes melodic. Lots of great beats. You could dance to it. Like I said, I've been listening to it for a while. It's got legs. I dare you not to dig it.




Live to the point of tears.
— Albert Camus

Vote early and vote often.
— Al Capone

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
— Dolly Parton

Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
— Thomas Paine

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
— Marshall McLuhan




Continuing @ HW thru Oct 21
gallery hrs Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1 to 4pm

RODNEY TAYLOR


ANDREW REYES



TOMCHESS @ HW
w/ Ravi Padmanabha
Fri, Sept. 19 8pm

Tomchess is a NYC-based multi-instrumentalist/improviser/composer. He plays reeds, western flute, Arabic/Turkish ney flute, oud, and guitar. He also has a history of using electronics /sampling/live-sampling/loops/fx. He has performed with drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson’ Decoding Society, Butch Morris’s Sheng Skyscraper, recorded with tenor players Dewey Redman and Pharoah Sanders, Morrocan sintarist Hassan Hakmoun and Butch Morris. He has also led a guitar trio with Drummer Phil Haynes and bassist Drew Gress called Seven Times a Year. He has studied Middle/Near Eastern and West African musics, spending time in West Africa playing and performing. He has studied with Bassam Saba, Tidiani Bangoura, Abdul Aziz Tourè and Mohammad Camarra. He currently lives in NYC where he performs with his different ensembles and works as a freelance musician. He has performed at the Turkish Embassy, the Pakastani Embassy and the Asian Society among countless other venues in NYC and the United States. He has also performed in Africa, Canada, Holland, and Italy.

Vincent Grenier @ HW
Sat, Sept 20, 8pm

"Even those of us fiercely devoted to the field of experimental cinema know all too well that it can be rather humor-impaired ... No surprise, then, that a stealth anarchist like Grenier is like a breath of fresh air." — Michael Sicinski

Hallwalls' Media Arts Program will kick off its Fall 2008 Season with a retrospective of Avant-Garde filmmaker Vincent Grenier. For over 30 years the French-Canadian artist has been creating award-winning experimental films and videos, yet his last visit to Buffalo was over three decades ago! Hallwalls is proud to welcome this esteemed filmmaker back to Buffalo. Grenier will present an evening of his poetic and abstract films and videos, a survey which will range from his early 16mm films to his most recent video projects including: Tabula Rasa (1993-2004, Orig.16 mm/DV, 7:30 min., color, sound); Catch (1975, 16mm, 5 min. color/silent); Here (2002, DV, 7:00 min. stereo); Surface Tension #2 (1995, 16mm, 4min., color, optical mono); North Southernly (2005, 6 min. color stereo); This, and This (2006 DV, 10:30, min., color, stereo); Mend (1979, 16mm, 5 min. B&W/silent); Armoire (2007, DV, 3 min., color, stereo); Interieur/Interiors (To AK) (1978, 16mm, 15 min. B&W silent).

Opening Elsewhere
• Connie Coleman & Alan Powell @ Squeaky Wheel op FRi, SEpt 19, 7:30-9:30pm (thru Oct 31)
• Mark Duquette @ Alleyway Theater op Sat, Sept 20, 6-8pm (thru Nov 30)
• Trans-Evolution: Examining Bio Art @ CEPA op Fri, Sept 19, 7—midnight
• Carianne Hendrickson at Shy Rabbit (Colorado) op Sat, Oct 4, 5-8pm (thru Nov 15)
• MIna Bellivia, Dave Derner, Mike Dominic, Gavin Kenyon, Josh Knoblick, Gina Miccinilli, Brian Porter, Jay Wholley @ Upton Gallery, Buff State, closing reception Thurs, Oct 2
• Richard Christian, Lukia Costello, Alex Enser, Christopher Franklin @ Passageway Gallery op Fri, Sept 19, 6—11pm


Richard Huntington @ the Castellani
op Sun, Sept 21, 2-4pm (thru Jan 18)



Bio Art @ CEPA

Trans-Evolution op Fri, Sept 19, 7—midnight
w/ works by Paul Vanouse, Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, Elizabeth Demaray
(thru Dec 20)


2 Deer, 2 Cars, 1 Giant Red Heart

David MItchell @ Big Orbit
op Fri, Sept 26, 8—11pm (thru Nov 22)


Max Streicher @ the Castellani
op w/ artist talk Fri, Oct 3, 5:30-8pmpm (thru Jan 18)




NYFA MARK info session at Hallwalls Cinema
Monday, September 22nd, 2008, 6:00 p.m.
FREE

MARK, the statewide professional development opportunity for visual artists launched in 2007–2008 by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)—in partnership here in Buffalo and WNY with Hallwalls—will be repeated in 2008–2009, and is open to all professional visual artists, all mediums, including:

painting
sculpture
photography
printmaking
drawing
artists’ books
computer arts (where the product is visual or multimedia including visual)
crafts (as a fine art form rather than utilitarian)
film, but only if used in installation (as a film loop projected in a gallery or alternative installation site; this particular program isn’t for feature, short, or documentary film producers)
video, but only if used in a gallery installation (projected or on monitors—especially multi-channel—in a gallery or alternative installation site; this particular program isn’t for feature, short, or documentary video producers)

NYFA MARK: The business of art for all of New York State

Looking to expand your visibility and focus a little more on the business side of your art practice? Interested getting to know more artists throughout New York State?

MARK is the New York Foundation for the Arts’ new six-month professional growth program for 80–100 visual artists throughout NY State. The MARK program focuses on giving artists the opportunity to expand their visibility through learning and then applying concrete professional practice skills.

MARK will start in mid January 2009 and run until June 2009, with four monthly seminars in each regional site (in Buffalo and WNY Hallwalls) and a culminating weekend retreat in New York City for all participating artists. Monthly seminars will be held at nine partnering regional arts organization throughout New York State (in Buffalo and WNY Hallwalls). The program focuses on goal-setting and strategies for expanding your visibility as visual artist. Individual sessions will cover the topics such as portfolio development, grant applications/project proposals, speaking (and writing) about your work (to curators, collectors, etc.), and presenting your work in public. Monthly assignments will apply practical knowledge acquired in the class and include a peer-learning or “buddy” system email interaction with other participating artists across the state. The program will once again culminate in June 2009 with a retreat for all MARK artists in New York City, as it did this past June (2008).

Join us for an info session at Hallwalls, MARK’s Buffalo/WNY region partner. The MARK info session will outline the program, go over the application (including guidelines and deadlines), and provide additional information about NYFA’s other programs for artists. This year's info session will also include brief in-person testimonials by some of the Buffalo visual artists who were selected to participate last winter and spring (2008).

Join us, make your mark!

Christa Blatchford
Officer, NYFA Learning
Information & Research Department
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
155 Ave of the Americas, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10013-1507
[tel] 212.366.6900 x338
[fax] 212.366.1778
[e] CBlatchford@nyfa.org
[web] http://www.nyfa.org



Continuing Elsewhere
• OP Art Revisited at the Albright thru Jan 25
• Lyle Ashton Harris @ UB Art Gallery thru Oct 18
• Amanda Besl @ Lemberg Gallery (Ferndale, MI) thru Oct 11
• John Opera @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago)
• Carnegie Art Center Members Exhibition thru Oct 17
• Alice O'Malley @ Nina Freudenheim thru Oct 8
• Michael Goldberg @ Anderson Gallery thru Jan 18
• Paul Alico and Elizabeth Kumrow Capuano @ Chateau Buffalo thru Oct 10
• Charles Houseman @ Meibohm Fine Arts thru Oct 11
• Pictures of Working Life Taken By Working Hands at NCCC thru Oct 10
• Catherine Linder Spencer at Daemon College thru Sept 28
• Gerald Mead at Studio Hart thru Oct 11
• Mary Begley @ Chow Chocolat thru Sept 25
• Joel Lewitsky @ Betty's thru Nov 9
• David Schirm, Justin Thompson @ Buffalo Arts Studio thru Nov 1
• Jeannine Swallow, Caitlyn Ohlson, Victoria Clostek, Amanda Giczkowski @ Hardware thru Sept 25
• Kenn Morgan, Robert Schultz, Robert Minick, Gene Witkowski, Jerry Greenburg, Lukia Costello @ Artspace thru Nov 1
• Rita Argen Auerbach, Stefani Bardin, Priscilla Bowen, Doreen DeBoth, Marion Faller, Jackie Felix, AJ Fries, Courtney Grim, Katherine Gullo, Biff Henrich, Thomas Kegler, Kevin Charles Kline, Ryan Legassicke, Coni Minecci, Michael Morgulis, Barbara Murak, Nancy Pelosi, James Paulsen, John Pfahl, Christy Rupp, Noreen Spurling, Christopher Stangler, John Yerger @ Kenan Center thru Oct 5
• Fine Arts League of Buffalo 55th Annual Juried Open Exhibition @ Art Dialogue thru Oct 10
• Incubation @ UB Dept. of Visual Studies thru Sept 24
• Robert Burley, Avalanche Collective, Ryan Boatright, Jim DeLucia, Bingyi Huang at the Rochester Contemporary thru Sept 21
• Monica Angle, Georgia Trimper, Barbara Baird @ Springville Center for the Arts thru Sept 20
• Max Streicher: Metamorphosis at the Castellani op Fri, Oct 5
• Lukia Costello at The Rabbit Room thru Nov 1
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)


"I was there almost by mistake, invited before anyone knew quite how little I know about food. I have never really cooked, don’t know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout."

artnet Saltz


"John Opera is a photographer who goes searching for personal aesthetic experiences, and he’s also an outspoken critic of his chosen medium."

New City Art


"In a move that some say has the potential to change the face of art dealing, Mr. Hirst has cut out his dealers — the New York-based Gagosian Gallery and the White Cube in London — and taken his work straight to auction."

NY Times Vogel


"By the sale’s end, on Tuesday afternoon, the entire auction brought a total of $200.7 million..."

NY Times Vogel
NY Times Vogel b


"Of the hundreds of openings in the city this fall, this one will be particularly distinctive. Because the artist is the pre-eminent American poet John Ashbery, making his solo debut as professional artist at 81, with a modest but polished exhibition of two dozen small collages."

NY Times Cotter


Richard Wright 1943—2008

NY Times obit


David Foster Wallace 1962—2008

NY Times obit


Something I listened to this week...

Laugh if you must, but it's no mean feat to sing well while sounding like you're not even trying. I have a greatest hits somewhere as well, with that wretched song That's Amore on it, but Hurtin Country Songs is really the only Dean I listen to—his version of He's Got You, covering Patsy Cline, outshines the original by at least half a country mile.




above: work by Tom Hughes


Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
— James A. Garfield

When I get smitten, I stay smut.
— Charlie McCarthy

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
— Casey Stengel

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake—which I also keep handy.
— W. C. Fields

We work in the dark. We do what we can. We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
— Henry James


above and end images courtesy Gary Nickard


Opening TOMORROW
Saturday, September 13, 8—11pm
w/ Artist Talks @ 8pm




Andrew Reyes applies those skills he picked up at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Intern Jessica Zelman will catch him if he falls.


Opening Elsewhere
• Carnegie Art Center Members Exhibition op Sat, Sept 13, 7-9pm (thru Oct 17)
• Trans-Evolution: Examining Bio Art @ CEPA op Fri, Sept 19, 7—midnight
• Michael Goldberg @ Anderson Gallery op Sat, Sept 13, 6:30—8:30pm (thru Jan 18)
• Paul Alico and Elizabeth Kumrow Capuano @ Chateau Buffalo op Fri, Sept 12, 6-8pm (thru Oct 10)
• Squeaky Wheel Open House & Instructors' Show Fri, Sept 12, 7pm
• Paul Pasquarelli at Stuyvesant Gallery op Fri, Sept 12, 6-9pm
• Charles Houseman @ Meibohm Fine Arts op Fri, Sept 12, 6-9pm (thru Oct 11)
• Pictures of Working Life Taken By Working Hands at NCCC op Thurs, Sept 11, noon—2:30pm (thru Oct 10)


2 Deer, 2 Cars, 1 Giant Red Heart

David MItchell @ Big Orbit
op Fri, Sept 26, 8—11pm (thru Nov 22)


Stephen Reynolds @ College Street Gallery

op Fri, Sept 12, 8—10pm (thru Oct 5)


Errol Daniels @ El Museo




op @ Starlight Studio
Fri, Sept 12, 6—9pm



Continuing Elsewhere
• OP Art Revisited at the Albright thru Jan 25
• Lyle Ashton Harris @ UB Art Gallery thru Oct 18
• Michael Veit at the Castellani thru Sept 14
• Amanda Besl @ Lemberg Gallery (Ferndale, MI) thru Oct 11
• John Opera @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago)
• Alice O'Malley @ Nina Freudenheim thru Oct 8
• Catherine Linder Spencer at Daemon College thru Sept 28
• Gerald Mead at Studio Hart thru Oct 11
• Mary Begley @ Chow Chocolat thru Sept 25
• Joel Lewitsky @ Betty's thru Nov 9
• David Schirm, Justin Thompson @ Buffalo Arts Studio thru Nov 1
• Jeannine Swallow, Caitlyn Ohlson, Victoria Clostek, Amanda Giczkowski @ Hardware thru Sept 25
• Kenn Morgan, Robert Schultz, Robert Minick, Gene Witkowski, Jerry Greenburg, Lukia Costello @ Artspace thru Nov 1
• Rita Argen Auerbach, Stefani Bardin, Priscilla Bowen, Doreen DeBoth, Marion Faller, Jackie Felix, AJ Fries, Courtney Grim, Katherine Gullo, Biff Henrich, Thomas Kegler, Kevin Charles Kline, Ryan Legassicke, Coni Minecci, Michael Morgulis, Barbara Murak, Nancy Pelosi, James Paulsen, John Pfahl, Christy Rupp, Noreen Spurling, Christopher Stangler, John Yerger @ Kenan Center thru Oct 5
• Fine Arts League of Buffalo 55th Annual Juried Open Exhibition @ Art Dialogue thru Oct 10
• Incubation @ UB Dept. of Visual Studies thru Sept 24
• Mark Weld at Market Street Art Center (Lockport) thru Sept 14
• Robert Burley, Avalanche Collective, Ryan Boatright, Jim DeLucia, Bingyi Huang at the Rochester Contemporary thru Sept 21
• Monica Angle, Georgia Trimper, Barbara Baird @ Springville Center for the Arts thru Sept 20
• Max Streicher: Metamorphosis at the Castellani op Fri, Oct 5
• Lukia Costello at The Rabbit Room thru Nov 1
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)


Favorite Piece Currently On View @ the Albright

John Beech, Diminishing Bumper-Pink, 2001
enamel on wood and metal pipe, 8 x 11 x 98 in Gift of Natalie and Irving Forman
Beech's bumper, as the title explains, diminishes across an eight foot length, which plays into a slight perspectival gag but what I really liked is that it's designed such that one end is visibly larger than an actual curb bumper while the other is visibly smaller than the actual. So it's slightly skewed from either direction, with a realistic proportion hidden somewhere within the work. And it's pink—I'm not a fan of pink, but I love it here. Also, kudos to whoever installed the work and plunked it down in the perfect spot in the ground floor gallery.


"With its immaculate, almost exaggeratedly stripped-down installation, the show is clearly intended not to recreate the feel of art on the street, but to record the fact of it. History, not buzz, is the subject."

NY Times Cotter


"The exhibition of 17 Koons sculptures marks the first time that the chateau built by Louis XIV has organized so ambitious a retrospective of one contemporary artist."

NY Times Sciolino


"I tell myself that I am an open channel for infinite riches, just like it says in the cult self-help book The Secret, but times remain hard. The economy is so bad that I have become a veritable Bob Cratchit in go-go boots, working two jobs and maintaining a policy of taking any gig that pays more than $40."

artnet Rev Jen


“If they want a body, they can have John Wilkes Booth...”

NY Times


"Of all the boondoggles of the current art-critical game, one of the biggest has got to be the idea of 'esthetic politics.'"

artnet Ben Davis


"Eyeing my date, Kissinger observed, 'I still go out to nightclubs, but my wife sends a car for me at 10 pm.'"

artnet Finch


Something I listened to this week...

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by David Byrne and Brian Eno. Don't get me wrong, I've always loved Byrne's voice but I've never heard him sing better than this. His voice sounds stronger and more resonant than ever, so middle age is definitely being generous to this aging icon of postmodern pop. Lay Byrne's terrific vocal performance atop Eno's typically thrilling production chops and you have an argument in favor of passing a law that forbids either of them from ever recording with anyone else again. The only problem with the new album is that it arrives thirty years after their last collaboration. Other than that, it's absolutely splendid from start to finish.




Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
— Plutarch