“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Teton Pass – 6″ x 6″ Watercolor & Sharpie
I have a terrible fear of heights. When I was driving back from
Driggs, Idaho to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming across the
Teton Pass,
I pulled over and took a picture of this view. I stepped way closer to
the edge than I was comfortable with, in order to get some good
painting references. Isn’t it funny what we’ll do for the sake of our
art?
Of course, you could
NOT get me to make that drive in the winter…
EVER! 
Check out the link on Teton Pass above to see what I’m talking about.
About Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda, the Peruvian-born new age writer, is known for his
book series about his apprenticeship with Don Juan Matus, the Toltec
shaman, including A Separate Reality and Journey to Ixtlan.
The books are about the nature of perception and include many
hallucinatory experiences. It is unknown how much of his writing was
factual. He wrote the first three books as an anthropology student at
UCLA, and they quickly gained cult success. He was born in 1925 and died
in 1998.
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