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Write, do art, save the world
Three goals for 2019
My goals for 2019 are: write, draw (and paint), and save the world. And I’m serious about all three.
Write and draw, of course, are modest goals. I achieved them this very morning — done and dusted.
The third one will take some effort. I might even have to put down the remote and get up off the couch.
The problem with saving the world — aside from all the obvious things — is the world is hard to reach. You can’t get at all the world. I want to save the children starving in Yemen. But I can’t reach them. The thirteen-year-old girl in Calcutta being beaten to death by her 30-year-old husband is … she’ll be dead by the time I get on a plane, get to India, and find her.
The people that need saving who are out of my reach may not be out of your reach. You may be able to hear the girl in trouble next door.
Yes. It’s your task to help her.
If I hear her it’s my job to check and see if there’s anything I can do.
Some people won’t be helped. There’s a man in Cleveland who’s been drinking himself to death for most of his adult life. He’s filthy, he stinks, he’s in an alley dying of hypothermia. If you offer to help him he’ll tell you to fork off. He’s a fully autonomous person in charge of…
