I woke up early this morning and created this digital collage. The Art Department’s office manager, Sue, died unexpectedly this week. She will be greatly missed. We’ve had four deaths within our department in five years. It’s been wearing us down. And the shock of this week’s news is fresh, permeating things. I guess it’s a numbers game, birth and death: the roll of the dice, the spin of the wheel, the luck of the draw.

“Do not waste this life.”

There’s fresh coffee brewed now and a to-do list waiting.

A few days ago I watched a documentary on a letterer, an artist, Mary Kate McDevitt, and one of the posters she beautifully hand-lettered declares,”Feels good to get stuff done.”

Sometimes it just comes down to that. Do the things you’re interested in. Now, not later. Now.

“Do not waste this life.”