I woke up at 3 a.m, my mind racing with appointments, taxes, bills, royalty checks, phone calls, fences, wallpaper and then late this morning I went to the New Bedlam Farm and began tearing wallpaper off the wall of my study, and I came to this bottom layer, this beautiful and gorgeous art on the walls, and I thought, this is who I am, this is what I am, a seeker of images and thoughts, a hunter of glory, not a fearful thing worrying about his bills. And I got this message in the mail from Ba-Boom: “Of all the joys on earth, few compare to the crowning glory of achieving against the odds, succeeding in the face of peril, or triumphing over adversity.”

So the wallpaper is coming off my office as well. We are going at it tonight. Tomorrow, we paint the living room.