This is so completely what I'm stumbling about with here at Scratch Factory. Just working with what you got, accepting constraints because there's ALWAYS constraints. And if I recognize and accept my constraints, then I can really make the best of what's around me, since I'm not wishing (or worse, believing) I have resources I don't.I mean look at that! It's made with LIQUID PAPER, for crying out loud! And a gold felt pen! I'm so in love with that I don't know what to say.
But I'll think of something.
Sometimes, of course, not accepting one's constraints is a good thing. I recall a conversation long ago when Dan started describing all the things his perfect operating system would -- how it wouldn't be anything like Windows or Mac OS or anything, and in listening to him talk I realised that I just didn't think like that.
If you give me a nail and a board and a rock, I'll sit there all day trying to get that lumpy rock to drive that nail into that board. Wouldn't EVER occur to me that maybe I should go look for a hammer. I'll just keep restraightening that poor old nail and trying again.
Which is great if you just need a nail in a board and don't need either to be in very good condition when they're done. Great when you don't want to spend the $$$ to buy a hammer. But not so great if you need a thousand nails in a thousand boards by the end of the day. Or if you need the nail straight and strong and the board smooth and unmarked.
Which is pretty Scratch Factory, too.
Anyway, I thought that geisha girl was pretty awesome.