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September 1964

Carrying the Message

Hold your horses

To be driven by a passion to hurry the end is to famish our lives of a living present. I enjoy what I'm doing when I am doing it, but there comes a time when I know I should give it a rest for a while. But seeing the end in sight is often a challenge to get the job done, causing shoddy and unsatisfactory workmanship. It's this which produces frustration, for being a perfectionist I have to right the faults, using up more time than would have been necessary had I done the right thing and given it a rest.

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