Art & Life Advice

OK, Nuna text is finished. Just need to add a half dozen sketches at important points, redesign the covers, and it is off to the printer. I'll also have to get the gameshop launch party planned, as well as online sales set up.

But feels great to have come this far.

My whole life I have been called a Dreamer, but that is how I have made so many of my dreams come true.

I wanted to live in Japan. Spent 22 years there.

I wanted to be a professor. I got tenure in Japan, but quit to care for sonny.

I wanted to be a martial artist. I got blackbelt in karate, then won 2nd place in my city in Japan.

I wanted to learn Japanese. I taught myself to the JLPT level 1, the highest you can get.

I wanted to get my son out of Japan. Now we enjoy life in Vancouver.

I wanted to be a game designer. Now here I am.

In my life, people have mostly been supportive of my dreams. But there are always negative voices, and our inner voice often sides with them against our own dreams.

So I say to you, Dream big!

Don't listen to the naysayers.

Keep at it with incremental action.

And whatever dream you have, you can make it reality.

Nekmek!