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"Courage the Cowardly Dog- I've always loved this show. I revisited an episode I had not seen in years, but last night it made me cry. It was that beautiful. And I could appreciate it in a way that I could not before. The episode is called Profiles in Courage- I hope you might watch it yourself. But in this episode, the villain is an old, tormented artist who attempts to bring life to his silhouette drawings by getting them to assume the lives of Eustace and Muriel. The magic drawings "suck" out their souls and try to mimic their behaviors. The silhouettes struggle; they are incapable of assuming the full lives of human beings because they are paper thin. Courage successfully resolves this and saves the actual Eustace and Muriel by proving to the paper copies that they are quite content being what they already are, not what the artist wants them to be. They return the couple back to normal and let Courage play with them in a way that maximizes their utility. When the tortured artist discovers this, he has a change of heart and is happy that his living artworks are happy as they are- not truly human, but alive in their own right. I think the point is already very apparent, especially if you watch it. But it seems to me that John Dilworth and the writers cleverly found a way to talk about their own struggles with the creative process and the quest for finding peace with one's nature. Just beautiful." Rob Wilson

Trusting you with this positive of myself, Hoping you don't find the negative, Because my image was underdeveloped, And I tried to fix it by exposing my feelings, For too long, That didn't work very well, I'll start over, A new frame of mind, But still the same subject, Not sure if I should even expose this one at all, For the first time, I'm actually worried, I wasn't looking to be captured, But I began to shutter with desire.