Spending time and a dime on my legacy

First a highly thought-proving look at music.

It had to be a cat.

Thought Provoking

(Continued)

My editor, close friend, and confidant Pamela suggested that I consider publishing a book containing my blog entries and my art. This suggestion did not immediately resonate with the normal white male tendency to inflate the ego and float on the vision of success. After all, I have self-published a novel. I know how ego-deflating that can be. It's tempting for a couple of reasons.

Regular readers know that I have an inordinately large family, given my three marriages. I have a small squadron of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. While some of them may have saved some of my blog entries and jpegs of my artwork, I'd like to think a collection of my work would be a better legacy. And so I ponder.

First, I recognize that the collection has little or no commercial value. It will not be necessary to mount a marketing campaign. There is no consideration of the content marketing value. What I include will reflect the work I've done as I've learned and grown as an artist and person. It won't be an attempt to provide "what's selling" in the marketplace.

Second, it is going to take a lot of time to edit, design, and layout this book. Besides the copy, I need flawless images to achieve the quality I want. The question is, do I want to spend that time?

AJ & Micka

Dancing the Night Away

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