THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 40

I write two of these on Fridays because I keep the Sabbath!

I’ve been writing about the general incitations for the new expansion boxes on THE EXPANSIONING Kickstarter. These updates have got me thinking about those formative years & how much stuff I was soaking up all the time. Or really how important those early discoveries were to me. My general modus operandi of late has been to express things that are important to me, or bring me great pleasure. The audience can feel it. I still soak up a lot of new ideas these days, but my garden where these new things enter in is just so much more full & thriving. It’s its own ecosystem & farm at this point. When I was young, I was still trying to fill out a small garden bed & some of the things hadn’t taken root yet. It was hard to imagine them eventually growing so much the challenge would be to keep them under control. It just feels dramatically different. So many of the things in life are modified by that aging & just having traversed so many more years that taking a couple or five doesn’t feel like so many but when you’re twenty a couple months can feel so short, so urgent! I have to remind myself of these things when I’m talking to my kids or other youngins & how urgent everything is for them. That said, I’ve always at least tried to listen to my elders & have just done that more so the older I’ve gotten. It’s cool to share these things that have just grown in importance with me over time. Some things are even cloudy for me, memories that need to be dusted off & shined up for presentation. Not being able to draw like I used to anymore has totally changed the way I operate as an artist, I have to be much more clear & be ready to explain what things are important & why & how I want things to be. It’s good, it allows me to tackle more & bigger projects.