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Between goodness and greatness is a smokescreen of seven deadly sins. 

element. 

Talent may beget goodness, yet greatness is reserved for those willing to sacrifice good enough for routine, intense practice, and the pursuit of likeminded, benevolent souls. Forget self-help books–no shortcuts. 

Be dedicated in the face of your environment. 

I desperately desire to be a great writer. I am good–sometimes I’m brilliant, but greatness is by trance not by chance or circumstance. 

When brilliant imagination mates with persistence, greatness is born. Beyond that, definition lacks access to the contextual, faceless, and peerless nature of genius. 

How can one accurately define that which may not be replicated?

feel.  

Many people feel safer surrounded by weakness, stagnancy, or incessant agreeance; stay away from them. The desire for feeling without fear is a growth’s death sentence. Period. 

I feel like you’re miseducated

Feel like

I don’t want to be bothered

I feel like you may be the problem

I feel like it ain’t no tomorrow 

F*** the world, the world is ending 

I’m done pretending 

And F*** you if you get offended

I feel like friends been overrated

I feel like the family been faking 

I feel like the feelings are changing 

Feel like 

My thought of compromise is jaded 

I been in the field for you

I feel for you right

I feel like

Ain’t nobody praying for me 

boots for walkin’

Religion - and Full Metal Alchemist - preach the damnation associated with The Seven Deadly Sins, yet pride, sloth, wrath, and the rest are effective guardrails for approaching greatness. Like boxing, the invisible flaw blindsides. 

Sloth is resistance to action with the mask of laziness–a person possessed by sloth may tinker toward perfect plans without testing a single idea, or they may sell dreams and never awaken to the reality of dedication. 

Digital newsletters are ineffective tools for communicating Eye of Apollo’s scope as a creative venture. In the visual arena of Instagram, I’ve been paying for ads to grow followers, with the effectiveness of a dagger in a drone fight–foolish, but errors are never as pivotal as lessons.

I’m creating a physical newsletter that I will write by hand and send via USPS. Text or email me your address if you are interested.

From slothful fear of change, I didn’t evolve my strategy from a year ago when IG ads worked for me. From prideful and lustful desire for vain validation, I was referring to a visual media to promote my work, when my superpower is writing. I didn’t keep the main thing as the main thing, because I wanted people to see what I was building as important. 

You been messin’ where you shouldn’t have been a messin’

Now someone else is gettin’ all your best

These boots are made for walkin’

And that’s just what they’ll do

One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

While no one told me I was making a mistake, I didn’t ask for opinions either. 

Get out of your own way. 

Me, I wasn't taught to share, but care

In another life, I surely was there

KTD, 

Apollo

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