Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

What you don't want to do is put the machine in place and then design products to satisfy it. We've been a victim of that in history. Technology has driven design, and that's kind of dangerous from a, you know, if your goal is to realize design and product vision.

I used to be very, very ardent about, okay, I want to be a full-time painter or rather a self-supporting painter. And now I'm not that. Now I'm okay with being a painter that's supported by me working a full-time job and whatever weight it takes. Really, how does it serve somebody else?

Bird watchers and I include myself in that category, listen to the world the way that I listen to the world. And that is with our ears wide open. So open that any scratch in the leaves, any faint scratch in the leaves has us looking for a white throated sparrow.