Because my blogs come in twos...

"I have half given up on my dreams of being successful. Being useful was more important."
From Thomas Awful's blog.

I met this couple in the ocean. There home is an hour and a half North of Lake Tahoe. They've lived a rural life together, but before as individuals they lived in cities, he in LA, she in the Bay Area. She raised their first son with no electricity. They are teachers. She said it was beautiful that I was a writer. There are many ways to feed yourself, she said, and if there's a choice between food and art, choose art. That even if I never have much money, I will be rich and happy within. And then we saw a sea turtle poke his head above from the ocean a few yards off and then submerge and become a black blur traveling beneath the water.