We require spiritual sustenance to reap the practical rewards of life. But it also states, Ein Torah ein kemach. One must meet practical needs in order to study. Without bread (literally flour) there is no Torah. The Mishnah (Pirke Avot 3:17) informs us, Ein kemach ein Torah. And my youngest, Aaron, dances with the Alwyn Nikolais Dance Theater after four years with ODC/Dance in San Francisco. They just won the Big Easy award for best country-folk band. My middle son, Yosi, plays drums and fiddle for New Orleans-based Hurray for the Riff Raff.
#Ars est pecunia software#
She has four more performances left in “Collected Stories.” My oldest son, Seth has composed beats and works for Cakewalk, a music software company. Why do people pursue art with such passion? Calvin Coolidge, our thirtieth president (1923-29), famously stated, “The business of America is business.” Hah! My wife is an actor (they don’t say actress anymore). And I’m completing the first draft of yet another novel.
I’ll probably publish my geopolitical satire set in the Persian Gulf, Slick!, this fall. I work with a great fiction teacher, Tom Parker. I’m good! But I can’t get an agent. Six years ago, I started writing novels again. I focused on my growing freelance copywriting business to provide for Carolyn and the kids. He sent back words of praise from editors but no book contracts. Years ago, I had a literary agent in New York. Most find solace being artisans rather than artists. Virtually every advertising “creative” wants to be a great novelist, poet, screenwriter, painter or sculptor. George’s business card read, Ars gratia pecuniae-Latin meaning art for money’s sake.
While a young advertising copywriter in San Antonio, I met a talented illustrator named George Hughey.
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