Remember that you have to die

Roger Ebert, after losing his voice, started writing a lot. Journalist Janet Maslin said he “writes as if it were a matter of life and death because it is.”1

Many artists who have near-death experiences end up coming out of it with new resolve to create.2 Find something that will remind you to live a good life while you can.

!What is it you plan to do - Mary Oliver

Reading obituaries can be a memento more for us.2

!Remembering that you are going to die —Steve Jobs

  1. Show Your Work pg. 23 

  2. Show Your Work pg. 25-27  2

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