I know that there are numerous reasons for continuing my body of work (the great majority of which has yet to appear on this site), but it seems that the only practical one is to hone my skills so that I might finally receive renumeration for my efforts. Recognition is also a plus (as long as it is positive) and of course this will increase the aforementioned renumeration. It's easy to understand why money is an issue with me-- I have so little of it, and now I have a family; it takes more than my regular working income to easily survive. I need to use what skills I have to augment what I already make. Now here's the part that upon logical inspection makes little sense-- I do not promote my work, and if someone wants to purchase a particular piece of mine, I usually low ball it tremendously. I recognize that I have a modicum of talent and/or skill and have been told so by various individuals, so where is the faith in what I do? I realize that I rarely finish things, and I know why: I want to keep improving upon the work and have difficulty in making myself say "stop already... stop here... it's good as it is." I just know that I could always do so very much better, and that's why I upload so little. Even the pieces I have already put in my gallery seem so incomplete and unworthy. Perhaps if I had no financial difficulties and never needed to work at my regular job, I would find the time and energy to do justice to my art. Then again, maybe I would lose my prime motivation to create much of anything and turn into a completely lazy bastard. I hope that this isn't the case. I want to be passionate about what I do and what I create, but I don't know how to accomplish that. I just don't know how to regain faith in my art anymore, and the years race by so very quickly. I just feel like I'm going nowhere with my creativity, and my beard is becoming ever more gray. I'm running out of time and running out of life.