Hello.
I truly cherish the time I spend exchanging words with you in this quiet manner.
Tell me, have you ever felt that you are a bit clumsy, or that you don’t quite fit in with those around you?
If so, the story of a strange artist I am about to tell you will surely resonate deeply within your heart.
His name was Piero di Cosimo.
This is the story of a solitary, completely pure, and crazed genius who lived in Florence during the Renaissance.
“What is seen and what is not seen.”
— Frédéric Bastiat
As Bastiat’s words suggest, we tend to chase only flashy, visible success. However, the things that truly matter are always hidden deep within the human heart, unseen by the eye.
The painter Piero di Cosimo was a man who spent his entire life depicting what is “unseen.”
In modern terms, he was a complete shut-in, known for his extreme aversion to human society.
“Why did he avoid people so much?”
It is only natural that you would tilt your head in wonder.
He fiercely hated anyone entering his property, and he even refused to prune the trees in his garden, claiming that doing so went “against the will of nature.”
His room was covered in cobwebs, his clothes were tattered, and his diet consisted of boiling fifty eggs at once and eating them cold over several days—a lifestyle that is hard to believe.
But before we laugh at his bizarre daily routine, I want you to pause and think for a moment.
Why did he stubbornly guard his own world to that extent?
It was because he possessed a soul more delicate and easily wounded than anyone else.
Living in the modern world, do you ever feel your heart wearing thin from packed trains, workplace relationships, or the relentless verbal violence on social media?
Piero di Cosimo’s extreme lifestyle was not mere eccentricity; it was a desperate means of self-defense to protect his precious soul.
The True Light Shining in Solitude
“Ashamed only of my own lack of talent and ability.”
— Matsuo Basho
Just as Matsuo Basho reflected upon himself in this manner, great creators always confront their own shortcomings and dive deep into the abyss of solitude.
Because Piero di Cosimo fully accepted his own weaknesses, he was able to paint works of such breathtaking beauty.
“But wasn’t he lonely and sad living like that?”
How kind of you to worry about his loneliness; you are truly a gentle person.
Yet, while he was solitary, he was by no means isolated.
From his window, the beautiful sky of Florence was visible. He would stare at the stains on his wall or the shapes of the clouds in the sky for hours, finding within them countless monsters and beautiful deities.
Don’t you think this serves as a profoundly important hint for your own daily life?
We often convince ourselves that we live in a boring, mundane routine. But if we open the eyes of our heart, an infinite world of stories unfolds before us.
If you possess the imagination to find beauty even in an ordinary stain on a wall, your everyday life will surely transform into something far more colorful.
“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched.”
— Blaise Pascal
When faced with their own weaknesses and wretchedness, anyone feels the urge to run away.
However, Piero di Cosimo stood his ground within that wretchedness, sublimating it into miraculous beauty upon the canvas.
His paintings feature numerous strange creatures—hybrids of humans and animals—and goddesses with sorrowful eyes.
Why did he paint such bizarre motifs? Do you find it mysterious?
It was because he knew all too well that “perfect humans” do not exist anywhere, and that everyone lives while harboring unresolvable monsters of weakness within their hearts.
Doesn’t a secret you can tell no one, or a monster of emotion you cannot control, dwell inside your own heart as well?
Piero di Cosimo’s paintings gently and completely validate those shadowed parts of you.
The Artist’s Obsession That Saves Your Daily Life
“Skin in the game.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb’s words carry an extremely heavy meaning for those of us living today.
To have skin in the game means to bear risks and face things with your very soul on the line.
The painter Piero di Cosimo was a man who lived his life putting the ultimate skin in the game, painting until his absolute limits.
“Did he paint for money?”
No, he did not.
No matter how much money wealthy patrons offered him, he absolutely refused any work he did not care for. If his creative process was interrupted, he would fly into a rage and lock himself in his room.
He did not create for wealth or fame; he simply wanted to be honest with the canvas before him, and with you, who stand on the other side of it.
In our daily lives, we are constantly driven by words like efficiency and cost-performance, often forced to sell out our own souls.
In those moments, I want you to remember Piero di Cosimo’s almost foolish honesty.
Even if the world calls you an idiot, to walk the single path you believe in—that is precisely what brings true brilliance to your life.
“In the end, without talent or art, I am bound only to this single path.”
— Matsuo Basho
Does it not warm your heart to overlay Basho’s words onto the life of Piero di Cosimo?
He was a man who truly could do nothing else but paint.
He couldn’t cook, he lacked social skills, and even basic conversation was precarious.
Yet, that obsession with “this single path” has transcended more than five hundred years to connect your heart and mine right now.
Through his life, he teaches us the sheer strength of focusing on one thing to the point of madness.
If there is a job you are working hard at, or a hobby you secretly continue, please believe in it until the very end.
There is absolutely no need to be swayed by the voices around you.
A Chain of Miracles and the Mission to Convey
Gogh’s Loneliness and the Miraculous Woman Left Behind by Theo
Piero di Cosimo’s solitary soul was passed down continuously to many artists of later generations.
The prime example is Vincent van Gogh, whom you all know well.
Like Piero di Cosimo, Gogh could not adapt to society and lived in extreme solitude, painting as if scraping away his own soul.
However, a massive question arises here.
Why are Gogh’s works, which are said to have sold only a single piece during his lifetime, loved by people all over the world today?
“Was it because Gogh’s talent was simply overwhelming?”
You might think so.
But the real reason does not lie there.
No matter how wonderful art may be, if there is no “messenger” to communicate it and hand it down to people, it will bury itself in the darkness of history and vanish.
Gogh had his younger brother Theo, who continuously supported him both emotionally and financially.
Yet, just six months after Gogh took his own life, Theo followed his older brother and departed from this world as well.
What remained was a vast mountain of unsellable paint-clotted canvases, a massive collection of letters exchanged between the brothers, and a single young woman—Jo, Theo’s wife.
“In addition to the child, Theo left me another mission—to have Vincent’s work seen by many people and to have its true value recognized.”
— Jo van Gogh-Bonger
Jo was a truly wonderful, intelligent, and courageous woman.
Holding Gogh’s paintings, which were ignored by everyone in the art world, and raising her young child, she began to fight all by herself.
She did not merely try to sell paintings.
Because Jo was an avid reader and an exceptionally intellectual woman, she read through all the vast correspondence between the Gogh brothers. She completely understood the deep philosophy running through them—Gogh’s pure prayer to comfort people through his work.
“I must convey his soul along with the paintings.”
Convinced of this, Jo organized and published the letters, organized numerous exhibitions, and sent the very way of Gogh’s life out into the world.
If Jo had not been there, we would have no way of knowing Gogh’s passionate sunflowers or his starry nights. The lineage of hidden eccentric geniuses like Piero di Cosimo might have been cut off entirely.
Paul’s Devotion and the Truth of Modern Business
This grand achievement by Jo completely overlaps with another monumental story in human history.
It is the figure of the Apostle Paul, who spread the teachings of Jesus Christ across the world after Jesus’ death.
When Jesus was crucified and died, his teachings were still just a small movement in a local region of Palestine.
However, a man named Paul braved mortal danger to travel across the Mediterranean world, writing letters to believers everywhere and continuously conveying Jesus’ life and thoughts. It was because of this that Christianity transformed into a world religion.
A good thing will never spread unless someone explains and communicates it.
Does this not apply perfectly to your daily life and the world of business?
No matter how excellent a technology or how wonderful a product may be, if you neglect the effort to communicate its value, it becomes the exact same as if it did not exist.
“A product created after immense hardship and painstaking research in some corner of a workshop, even though nothing like it has ever been produced before and no one has ever seen it. If one wishes to turn that product into a commodity, one must arouse the desire among people to possess it; otherwise, no matter how excellent the ‘product’ may be, it cannot become a ‘commodity.'”
— Akio Morita
These words by Akio Morita, the co-founder of Sony, strike at the very essence of what Jo and Paul accomplished.
Steve Jobs, called the world’s greatest salesman; Takeo Fujisawa, who sold the Honda Super Cub all over the globe; and Shotaro Kamiya, who raised the Toyota Corolla into a national car—they all played the exact same role.
There are people who scoop up and deliver to the world the true light born from inward-looking geniuses like Piero di Cosimo, who put their own skin in the game.
You, too, harbor the potential to become a “messenger” who finds the wonderful qualities in someone else and communicates them to those around you.
It might mean unlocking a subordinate’s talent within an organization, or putting a companion’s kindness into words to praise them.
To convey is, in itself, the highest form of “service” and “ministry” permitted to human beings.
The Madness and Obsession of Great Figures to Survive Adversity
The Unending Challenges of Inventors Called Madmen
“But starting something new or sticking to your beliefs is a very frightening thing.”
I understand your anxiety so deeply it hurts.
It is only natural human psychology to worry about how others see you or to fear being laughed at when you fail.
However, the innovators who left their names in history were all people who overcame that fear, proceeding even while being treated as “madmen” by those around them.
“I do it because it is difficult. I do it because no one else will or can. I might be a fool for being that way, but without such fools, nothing new would ever be born into the world.”
— Kiichiro Toyoda
Don’t these words by Kiichiro Toyoda, who laid the foundation for Toyota Motor Corporation, sound thrillingly magnificent?
His father, Sakichi Toyoda, was also a complete “invention maniac”—an eccentric who did nothing but fashion things and break them, build them and rebuild them from morning till night, day after day.
From his surroundings, he was treated as an oddity, a madman, and was not viewed as a normal human being.
Yet, Sakichi possessed a mad passion and obsession: “I want to invent things to make everyone’s life easier.”
Just as Piero di Cosimo built his own bizarre and beautiful painterly world in a cobwebbed room, completely ignoring what anyone said, Sakichi Toyoda dedicated his entire life to developing looms, utterly disregarding the mockery of those around him.
“Execute with a strong conviction. Anyone thinks the same thoughts; it is not that Kiichiro was a genius. What is important is that he didn’t just think about what is generally considered impossible, but he possessed a powerful conviction that he absolutely had to do it, prepared thoroughly, and executed it.”
— Eiji Toyoda
Eiji Toyoda, who later became the president of Toyota, evaluated Kiichiro in this way.
He succeeded not because he was a genius, but because he possessed a powerful conviction that he must do it, allowing him to break through the walls of history.
If you are currently stuck, feeling lonely because those around you do not understand, please remember this “spirit of the fool.”
What you are trying to do is by no means in vain.
Please do not give up easily; what kind of life you achieve is determined solely by a person’s diligence, patience, and power of continuity.
The Ultimate Hands-On Business Dedication
Here, there is one more person possessing a staggering obsession whom I absolutely must introduce to you.
He is Tokuji Munetsugu, the founder of the curry specialty chain “CoCo Ichibanya.”
He was a literal “monster of service” who dedicated every bit of his time, his entire life, to the customers right in front of him.
“Why was he able to be so thorough?”
The answer lies in his unimaginably harsh childhood.
Munetsugu did not know the faces of his biological parents. He was placed in an orphanage immediately after birth, and even after being taken in by foster parents, he led a life of extreme poverty due to his foster father’s gambling addiction.
In his youth, because there was nothing to eat, he survived his hunger in the summer by eating weeds—a life whose beginning makes the phrase “full of ups and downs” sound far too mild.
The business he finally grasped for himself was a coffee shop, which later became the curry house.
Because of this, he cast aside all distractions and offered his very self to management.
“During my time in active management, I held no hobbies and made no friends. I never once went to a drinking establishment. I did absolutely nothing that would interfere with my work. There were years I worked 5,640 hours. I believed that if I did not lead by example, my subordinates would not work for me.”
— Tokuji Munetsugu
He made working more than twelve hours a day his minimum requirement, stating that he did not want to rest, did not want to play, and would make work his hobby to live out his life.
He even completely cut off classical music—which he loved and which had saved him during his unfortunate childhood—during his years as an active manager, saying, “This is no time to be listening to music, no time to be indulging in hobbies.”
Don’t you think this level of thoroughness closely resembles the obsession of Piero di Cosimo, who kept eating boiled eggs in his cobwebbed room?
“It was a very lonely life. That is why I wanted others to show even a little interest in me. I wanted them to be interested in me. That became my starting point. Therefore, when I started the business, rather than making money, I wanted to make people happy. I wanted them to say, even just a little, that they were glad I was here.”
— Tokuji Munetsugu
When I heard these words, I felt a tightening emotion in my chest.
The root of his fierce work ethic was not financial ambition, but a desire to make people happy and to have his existence acknowledged—an incredibly pure, almost heartbreaking love for humanity.
When they first started the coffee shop, customers hardly came at all. During lunch, his wife, who ran the business alongside him, reportedly staved off hunger by eating the crusts of sliced bread.
Yet Munetsugu said, “We started from zero, so such things are a matter of course. Because we started from nothing, it is rather a good memory.” Believing in the daily accumulation, he continued to work, focusing on his tasks like stacking bricks day by day.
Immediate decision, immediate conclusion, immediate execution.
If you just try doing it, results will follow; the first step is simply to do it.
For things of value are, more often than not, things that do not yield immediate results.
The Revolution of Production Methods and the Philosophy of Interest
This hands-on, thorough spirit of efficiency and service also breathes within the famous “Toyota Production System.”
Producing what is needed, when it is needed, in the amount needed: “Just-in-Time.”
Taiichi Ohno, who established this wonderful way of thinking, was also a man who dedicated his life to thoroughly eliminating waste and squeezing out every ounce of wisdom from the front lines.
“Can this way of thinking be used in any job?”
Yes, of course it can.
This spirit of eliminating waste and pouring all your energy into what is necessary right now can be applied to all your daily housework, desk work, and time management.
“Because it is difficult, we do it. The joy of life lies in bringing to fruition the things that almost no one else does, the things that are hard to do.”
— Kiichiro Toyoda
Because no one else does it, I will do it.
Just as Piero di Cosimo turned his back on the flamboyant trends of the Renaissance to paint to completion his own bizarre and beautiful world.
Just as Gogh filled his canvases with swirling colors, even if no one understood him.
Just as Tokuji Munetsugu continued to serve curry for the smiles of the customers before him, casting away both hobbies and friends.
Their lives, viewed objectively, may have been filled with intense suffering and solitude.
However, they cut their own skin, put their game on the line, and played the role of the clown to its absolute limit as the ultimate form of hospitality on the stage of life.
They did not give up; with an indomitable spirit, they continued to serve the you right in front of them.
The Immortal Wisdom and Prescription for the Soul Covering the World
The Salvation of the Soul Spoken by Sages of All Times and Places
Now, we have spun the stories of geniuses who possessed a beautiful madness, starting with Piero di Cosimo.
Here, to heal your heart even more deeply, allow me to distribute a few words of great wisdom from all times and places.
These words will surely become lighthouses piercing the darkness when you are tossed about by the rough waves of life and feel on the verge of losing yourself.
“Fate leads the willing, but drags the unwilling.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Roman philosopher Seneca spoke thus.
Rather than living while cursing an unchangeable reality, accept it and search for what you can do within it.
Just as Piero di Cosimo accepted his own bizarre character and sublimated it into his destiny of painting, you too can begin a new step by loving your current reality.
“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
— Hypatia
These are the dignified words of Hypatia, the female philosopher of ancient Alexandria.
Rather than standing still out of fear of failure, it is far better to take action, even if you make a mistake.
She demonstrated through her own life the importance of doing over merely thinking.
“Without love, no one can please God. And love is proven only through service to one’s neighbor.”
— Catherine of Siena
These words of Saint Catherine represent the very way of life of Tokuji Munetsugu, and the ultimate spirit of service that Piero di Cosimo embedded within his works for us.
To give your all for someone other than yourself, for the you right in front of you.
Could there be a more beautiful way to live in this world?
The Proud Choice of the Poet Who Bet His Life
Here, let me tell you an astonishing story about a man praised as the greatest poet of the Arab world, Al-Mutanabbi.
His name carries the meaning, “He who deems himself a prophet.”
The poems he crafted possessed a powerful rhythm and beauty, said to have a kind of hypnotic effect, to the extent that it was praised that “even the blind could read his poems, and even the deaf could hear his voice.”
However, within one of his poems, he fiercely insulted a certain powerful tribe.
Naturally, the angered tribe appeared before Al-Mutanabbi during his travels, leading a massive force.
Outnumbered and realizing he had no chance of winning, Al-Mutanabbi wisely attempted to flee the scene.
At that moment, his servant who was behind him, for reasons unknown, began to recite a poem that Al-Mutanabbi himself had written in the past, praising a brave hero.
And the servant said:
“Will you, who wrote such a brave and noble poem, now flee in dishonor?”
Hearing those words, what do you think Al-Mutanabbi did?
He quietly turned around, and knowing that he would certainly be killed if he fought there, he took up his weapon to face the swarm of enemies to avoid the dishonor of fleeing, meeting a grand and tragic death.
Even now, more than a thousand years later, he is remembered throughout the world as a true poet who took responsibility for his own words and threw away his life for honor.
The reason the words he left behind still strike the hearts of people today is that he proved those words by cutting his greatest piece of skin—his own life.
We live in an era that tends to trivialize words.
However, a single word, a single painting, can hold a value heavier than a human life.
The paintings left behind by Piero di Cosimo, who painted without speaking to anyone, also possess such weight as they exist right now before your eyes.
Fragments of Wisdom Weaving the Joy of Life
“It is not what you know, but how you know that matters.”
— Michel de Montaigne
The French philosopher Montaigne taught that the depth of one’s approach to things matters far more than the quantity of one’s knowledge.
The reason Piero di Cosimo did not need to go on a journey to know the vastness of the world was that he knew the tiny space inside his room more deeply and richly than anyone else.
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
Even if you are in a painful situation right now, it may be merely because your mind defines that situation as “unfortunate.”
Whether one views Piero di Cosimo’s solitary room as a hell or as a paradise of art.
Everything can be changed into either, depending entirely on the disposition of your mind.
“Happiness is not something to be found, but something to be newly created.”
— Shuji Terayama
These words by the avant-garde artist Shuji Terayama prompt a powerful awakening within us.
Rather than sitting in a chair of happiness prepared by someone else, to smear your own unique values, your own unique colors, onto this world.
The life of Piero di Cosimo—clumsy, lonely, yet never giving up—was precisely the back of an indomitable man who continued to create happiness on his own.
“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”
— Paul (Second Epistle to the Corinthians, 4:8-9)
These words sent by the Apostle Paul to support the early church have transcended time to become an ultimate cheer for every wounded soul living today.
In the midst of life, there is no life; in the midst of death, there is life.
At the exact moment you are completely beaten down and think it is all over, the true strength of a human being, the true brilliance of life, comes surging and pulsing forth.
“God’s grace appears most abundantly when we are at our most helpless.”
— Jean Calvin
This philosophy of the religious reformer Calvin also deeply supports our hearts.
When we know our own helplessness and give up on being perfect, we can realize for the first time the kindness of others and the true beauty of art.
Laozi also left behind the words: “The highest good is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in places that the multitude detests.”
In the lowest places, within the solitude and clumsiness that everyone dislikes, the highest good resides.
The water named Piero di Cosimo, while quietly remaining in a corner of Florence, is now attempting to moisten the dry earth that is you, five hundred years later.
Endless Service, A Vow to You
Tell me, as you have accompanied me through this long, long talk of mine, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Doesn’t the view of that strange room of Piero di Cosimo’s, filled with boiled eggs that I spoke of at the beginning, look a little different to you now?
He was no mere eccentric.
He was an incredibly admirable clown who threw away his everything, spending his entire life providing the utmost service for you, whom he had yet to meet.
We may all be clowns playing some role upon the grand stage of this world.
So what if we are laughed at?
It does not matter in the least if we are called foolish.
To be laughed at, to be ridiculed, and yet still to exert utmost sincerity to bring joy to the precious person before us.
That is the sole, and highest, truth for surviving this tedious and occasionally cruel world.
Please do not give up on yourself.
For that clumsiness of yours is your very own, irreplaceable brush for painting a beautiful picture that belongs to you alone.
As if driving a nail into a parched sky
I call your name over and over
In the corner of a room where no one looks
The lonely fingertips peeling the shells of boiled eggs
Will one day become a handkerchief to wipe someone’s tears
I knew this from the very beginning
Like a fish that does not know the sea
The walls of solitude that confine you
Are actually a secret door
Leading to an infinite starry sky
Therefore
Please laugh
At this foolish step of mine
If you smile for just a moment
I will gladly become a piero
Who continues to dance in the rain forever
“Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.”
— Old Testament, Psalm 126:5-6
“It seems that human beings, from time to time, inevitably want to take actions that are meaningless, looking in some completely absurd direction. To blame that as immoral or meaningless is to know far too little about human beings. To me, it feels as though the true loveliness of human beings is hidden precisely within those wasteful actions directed toward absurd quarters.”
— Osamu Dazai
“Tell me, why do you go on a journey?”
“Because it’s painful.”
“Your ‘painful’ is always the same old thing, I can’t trust it at all.”
— From Osamu Dazai’s Tsugaru
Postscript: About a Painter Named Takamizawa Mimi
Here, at the very end, let me talk about a precious friend of mine.
There is a painter living in the modern era named Takamizawa Mimi.
He does not use conventional canvases or brushes at all.
He creates all his works within a digital environment and prints them using the highest pinnacle of “giclée printmaking technique” onto thick, prestigious printmaking paper—a method unique to the modern age.
The themes he depicts are your eyes/my eyes, Christianity, eternity, psychology, truth, gaze, history, solitude, isolation, hardship, resurrection, and liberation.
It might sound a bit difficult, but the world he draws is surprisingly familiar, and filled with stories that are somehow humorous and delightful.
Takamizawa Mimi always says this:
“A painter, you see, is a doctor who saves the wounded souls of human beings. And an artist’s job is a supreme service provided by cutting one’s own skin. It is an absolute devotion to you, who are right in front of me.”
He continuously draws “eyes” within his works to a maddening degree.
This is because, by drawing those eyes, he wants to constantly feel the gaze of you standing on the other side of the screen.
He wants to know you; he wants to connect with you.
If it is for that purpose, he says he does not care if he exposes all his foolishness, is laughed at, or is called a madman.
To be laughed at, and to grow stronger.
Because he knows the muddy history of decades of trial and error by the likes of Piero di Cosimo and Vincent van Gogh, who cut his own ear, he does not rely on natural talent. He faces the screen for over twelve hours every single day through sheer obsession and patience alone.
Takamizawa Mimi respects Tokuji Munetsugu, the founder of CoCo Ichibanya, from the bottom of his soul.
Just as Munetsugu cut off all hobbies and friends during his active years, working 5,640 hours a year and sticking to a customer-first policy, Takamizawa Mimi also casts aside all distractions, dedicating the entirety of his life solely for you, who are reading this text right now.
Like Munetsugu, who endured by eating the crusts of bread when customers did not come at first, he also believes in the daily accumulation, like stacking bricks one by one.
The criticism of anyone else matters nothing to him.
However, if he is abandoned by you who are right in front of him, he cannot go on living.
Just by you being there and locking eyes with the “eyes” he has drawn, he is saved, welcoming you into his heart with a standing ovation.
Please, look upon this foolish, yet indomitable man who refuses to give up, with a warm smile.
“Most people think of success as something to get. But in reality, success is giving.”
— Henry Ford
“The ultimate secret of life is not to know who you are, but to discover who you can become.”
— Agatha Christie
“I am with you. Do not be afraid.”
— Moses (Book of Exodus)
“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.”
— William Shakespeare
“A man who thinks only of himself is trapping himself in a narrow cage. Only those who live for others can know the truly wide and spacious world.”
— The Talmud
“The spirit of the Mahayana amounts to the single matter of destroying oneself to save others. An artist, too, must be a fierce clown of that nature.”
— Osamu Dazai
“Art is the most beautiful lie we tell ourselves in order to understand the truth.”
— Osamu Dazai
— “The reason that I, who am nothing more than an ordinary human being, can love you to this extent is surely because something eternal that transcends me dwells within me.”
— Osamu Dazai
“Never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”
— Winston Churchill
“Have the courage to be the first, and to be different.”
— Ray Kroc
“I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night.”
— Ray Kroc
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing—that it was all started by a mouse.”
— Walt Disney
“He who has never failed has never tried anything new. Nature always hides a beautiful harmony within all its laws.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
I offer my heartfelt gratitude to you for reading this long text to the very end.
May your future path be filled with light and wonder.
Thank you so very much.