Lio by Mark Tatulli for February 19, 2025

What if you want to do what you have to do?

If in the US Empire then the IRS has all of these exits covered so no matter what you do or where you go …

If you can go straight to what you want, why bother to do what you have to do? And anyway, who’s to say that doing what you have to do, is necessarily going to get you what you want?

I always go left. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t.

I have people for that other stuff.

Left it is!

Straight up the middle and on until Morning!

Take the road less traveled!

There is “What you want”, where is “What you need”?

Actually I think Aretha Franklin has it.

If this ain’t the truth. Maybe for my next career I’ll figure out how to make these two roads one and the same…or at least not so divergent.

And never the twain shall meet.

I read the above while I should be working…

’Twas ever thus.

Robert Frost anyone?

Can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes…

Did he take the road less traveled?

Better than the crossroads where the signs say “To lose your way,” “To lose your life,” “To lose your mind,” and “To lose your heart.”

I love the way Lio’s buddy has the tip of his tentacle in his mouth, like a child.

go straight on the grass

When Lio grows up, he’ll realize that you do what you have to do to get what you want. And the more you want, the more you have to do to get it.