1. Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

2. The pretty, initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued---except as a stimulus for further moves.

3. Do search. But in order to find other than what is searched for.

4. Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

5. Don't "discover" a subject---of any kind.

6. Somehow don't be bored---but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.

7. Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.

8. Keep thinking about Polyanna.

9. Tolerate chaos.

10. Be careful only in a perverse way.

---Richard Diebenkorn

I've been collecting beer caps for AGES. I now have 3 large shoe boxes full of 'em. I was planning to use them for some crafty project, and kept collecting and collecting, and never really thought too much about WHAT exactly I was going to use them for.

I could make earrings, maybe a necklace... was thinking about a beer cap studded belt, maybe use them for a mosaic on a coffee table? Lampshades... I love lampshades! Hmm... My indecisive tendency is coming out.

So I'm not quite sure just what I'm going to make yet. As I go through my many beer caps I just remember all the memories... haha! What good times now past. But alas, there they sit, in my shoe boxes gathering dust. They will be put to good use, someday. Today? I think not, but there is always the possibility of tomorrow.