I’m currently reading the earth chapter in Maxine Hong Kingston’s book   The Fifth Book of Peace.

You cannot let anything stop you, whether it is no sales or a million sales of your art or books.  Currently watching the Rolling Stone’s Mick Jagger produced movie too,   Get on Up at the 1 hour 42 min mark there is a scene where James Brown and the band are  performing in Paris.  Paris the recent scene of death, yep, even with that you must move on to achieve your dreams.

What do you believe in?  In the earth chapter, Maxine exposes us to the spirit world of Caodaism.  Seems the Vietnamese vets resided in the spirit word of this and that.  You had to do what you to in Nam to survive  (my late cousin Leroy Banks Jr, my Uncle Leroy Banks Sr. played his horn in W.W.2 and my mechanic the late Tony Kennedy {his mom was from the UK})

What will you do to achieve and write your dreams?  Remember what James said work hard and its show and business.  You have to work hard to create your  art  and work even harder to sale your works, but  as Maxine has said do it all in peace.  Her first book of peace burned with her house.  The second one keeps  us going on and on.