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A photo of a Gandhi painting I made for my niece, Maureen. I recall loading it in the back of my pickup bed. While I was stopped for gas, a guy came over, and asked me if it was a self-portrait.
Lately I've had some insights into the way forward with the online situation. I suggest that people might start posting more personal, original content. Too often I receive in the mail, or on Facebook, or Instagram, stale, passed-around, videos. Either that or some hackneyed quotation from, say, a movie star. I mentioned this advice to one of my followers and received an angry reply. Very touchy. Some folks can be. He must be ashamed of his imaginings. So he keeps forwarding the most jejune stuff.
Dare to be yourself! A friend once said "It isn't much, but it's mine." Let that be your motto for your postings from now on.
I am more someone else than I am myself. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Become supremely personal. I realize that it's frightening, but also very invigorating. It's the one, time-tested, sure-footed, path to originality.