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The Choices We Face
By George Huff
The always on mentality - it’s a choice. The quality of your work - another choice. The quantity of your work - another choice. There is only so much you can control and the rest you have to let go and enjoy the ride.
Occasionally, I hit a speed bump. Something that doesn’t feel quite right in my gut, something that brings me to the uncomfortable conclusion, yes, I still have much to learn. Don’t over-extend-promise-deliver, all of these things get you in trouble in one way or another.
“Why Do It?”
Currently I feel over-extended in the planning of Home Skillet Festival. When it was the only thing in my life that I really did for myself (as I was working for someone else), I didn’t question the why do it? But now, with We the Media moving ahead at full steam, I am questioning the why. A music festival in my hometown of Sitka, Alaska where there are multiple bottlenecks - why?

Growing up there, I remember other people tried to do things like Home Skillet Fest and it would only last a couple of years. There was something so sad in the informative moment, “they’re not doing it this year.” All I could think of was, “why?” Now with the third festival right around the corner, all deadlines inching painstakingly closer, I know why. Because it is fucking hard. It’s not hard in the doing or the known - it’s hard in the unknown. Will our catalogs be printed in time? Will these tickets sell? Will these artists get on the fucking plane?
Somewhere, instilled deep inside, there is a fire that pushes me through moments like these. Everyone must find their internal burn. You have a choice.
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Susan Jarvis July 18th, 2008 at 7:01 am
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eleven3, Portland Web Design, Solid CSS Websites, Built Green » Blog Archive » I am a horrible blogger AND a decent hustler July 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
[...] - that was our goal. If you follow this sob-story of a blog, you may remember my last post that was questioning the whole project. I am over that now - the festival is a great thing and my hometown is truly a special [...]