Teams usually struggle to do what I am trying to do alone.  I know this.  It is sad enough to break a man with a vision that is already coming true.  The things I see every day in the animation workshop make me realize how powerful the tool I’ve created can be.  I watch kids transformed by the process of working together creatively.  Competition dissipates, short attention spans expand, kids unable to sit still focus to get something right on the computer.  I hold the children to very high standards in producing their own work, although in sly and sneaky ways.  It is sometimes amazing what goes on in there, the startlingly original animations that such young kids produce.

The jobs I am doing can probably not all be done by one person.  I am exhausted, often swimming in icy water that is also very deep.  If I can’t exactly see the other shore, I know the direction.   If I stop moving forward, I’m sunk.  So I keep going and try not to waste energy crying about how much easier it would be if someone with a motor boat, a rescue blanket and a hardy spirit would pass by and let me climb aboard.   Can’t wait for that at the moment, the water is bone chilling.  But there is warm sun on the other shore, I can practically feel it on my face.

Keep on pushin’, as my man Curtis Mayfield used to sing.