Creating

(photo by Richard Boettcher)

I have an insane belief in my own ability to manifest things.  Insane belief, you know, that - I think it's ultimately complete sanity, but - I believe we create with every thought and every word in every moment is pregnant with the next moment of your life.  This is a fantastic journey that we're on.  It really is.  I mean, I've been challenged by it and it's been really difficult at times, but ultimately it's the last place we'll be able to tell the truth.  And that's what your job is - ultimately.  whether you do it in an abstract way or a real way.  Your job is to tell the truth about humanity.

~ Jim Carrey (on Inside the Actor's Studio)

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Dad:  Hi.  Your mother and I have been working on this [juvenile nativity] project for the last 3 weeks.  We made 56 sets of 3 figurines each for the kids in the preschool at our church.  Your mother painted most of them and I cut, sanded and primed them.  I had a bunch of scraps of 1/2" plywood and figured this was better than sending them to the landfill.

Me:  That is really cool, but what preschoolers really like are plaster of Paris sheep so they can eat the heads off of them.  Wait.  Maybe that was just Erik.

I didn't write this to my father, but I think he's right that Baby Jesus would rather that the wood was used to make little nativities instead of being sent to the landfill.  Of course, I'm just speculating.