Personal Ethic

Here is who I hold myself to being.

Live as the author of your life and the servant of your loves; may your daily toil prove each.

Five principles:

• Authorship: Do not outsource your reason to be.
• Love in Action: Show it daily.
• Strength with Mercy: Do not confuse strength with cruelty.
• Creative Finitude: Make it. Release it. Repeat.
• Inner Freedom: You alone control yourself.

The following fifteen are not rules I obey but a mirror I check.

A man like me:

1. Gives joy and support to my family and friends.
2. Loves my wife and proves it with daily action.
3. Is an ARTIST; does not outsource taste, courage, or responsibility.
4. Does not run from emotion. Treats intuition as signal, not command.
5. Laughs like Socrates. Allows play to puncture every idol, especially myself. You are Scoobert Doobert, damnit. Have some fun!
6. Keeps the antenna up; participates, mentors, listens, and reads – fiction too!
7. Is a finish freak that creates durable and shared artifacts in art, technology, and philosophy, week~after~week, for life.
8. Smells the roses; supports the arts; makes time for beauty.
9. Trains my body and listens to it, so I can do dope shit with my friends and participate in the world. Mind and body are one!
10. Does not abstain, rarely binges.
11. Knows when to push and when to flow like water. Does not rush; does not delay.
12. Remembers even the executioner cannot take your inner freedom.
13. Refuses to confuse strength with cruelty.
14. Runs to console the beaten horse, then walks home strong enough to run again.
15. Accepts the hands that run to him. Is loved not only for what he gives or makes.