They say you can never recreate exactly the same watercolour painting twice. You can never predict exactly how the pigments mix with each other, mix with water, pigments of the same brand and from different sources, hand made or mass produced. The timing, the duration, the quantity of water and pigment, the humidity, the brush and the brush strokes will change everything. It’s annoying and it’s super exciting. It’s the very spontaneity and looseness of the medium that make it so fascinating and entincing.

To live content with small means.
To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion.
To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich.
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes, and sages with open heart.
To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.

This is to be my symphony.

– William Henry Channing