things aren’t easy
“easy to say and hard to do” “nothing comes from nothing” and all that
but what does it really mean
anyone who’s built a house or a complicated computer program from scratch knows
and may be able to tell you if you can listen
a good artist and each person who dares to create something that never existed
or change something carefully to make it better
knows too
it means starting with nothing but an idea and starting with not knowing but believing you can figure it out
and building from that one piece and one fact at a time
and learning how to fit each piece each fact with another
over and over
day after day
and make mistakes and care enough to see them
and fix them
and learn
and not make mistakes but stand back and want to make it even better and do some parts again until you know they’re right
day by day one piece one fact married to another
sets of facts and pieces put together to make bigger pieces and one assembly married to another
building and building
until you’re done
and your idea works just like you knew it would