Creative Contemplator Gifts

Rodin's Thinker.

"My career's in shreds, but on the bright side, so are my files."

Not much money, glory, or praise

If I could sell my experience for half of what it cost me I could retire.

Guys looks in the mirror and sees himself as a prisoner.

"Helen, is it just the accountant in me, or am I sensing a tone of wistful melancholy and a bittersweet acceptance of the unfathomable mysteries of corporate life in those numbers?"

His new 'Absence of Anything' reminds me strangely of his earlier blank 'Nothing to Say' canvasses."

'What I especially like about being a philosopher-scientist is that I don't have to get my hands dirty.'

'I am not my job... my job is not me... I do not need my job to give my life a purpose...' 'Hey, did you hear the news? We're all laid off!' 'Stupid affirmations!'

"I feel I blend in well with the holes in my career ladder."

'I'm not saying this is a deadend job, but you can forget a trophy wife.'

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

'I understand the Adirondacks are where it's REALLY happening.'

Man reading magazine: 'International Procrastinator.'

"Too busy."

This plaque commemorates the trees that was cut down to make space for this bench.

I don't see a future for me in my present job. They don't reward mediocrity.

'Ach - I always cringe when I look back at my early stuff.'

'He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, who cares...'

A long way towards retirement...

"I'm at that sweet spot in my career...right between 'young and underpaid' and 'old and too expensive.'"

"It's an honest piece"

'One day I'll stop to reflect on my career and marvel that I have time to reflect.'

"You said you wanted something really rewarding for your last wish so I made you a teacher."

Alcohol 'Nector of the Gods' 'Devils Brew!'

"At what point in your public relations career did you realize you don' relate to the public?"

"Do wine writers suffer and all that?"

"I want to learn to live in the moment... just not this moment. some other moment. Like a moment on the beach."

Wealth without fulfilment/Fulfilment without wealth.

Prayers For Agnostics

'You're wasting your time. I like my job, but I'll never love it.'