GOOD ENOUGH IS

Remember when you wanted what you currently have. Story time followed by new art and thoughts.

“STOP TO SMELL THE FLOWERS, OR LIFE WILL PASS YOU BY”

It was the year my wife Britta was preggo with our first kid Asher.

2012ish

I had sold my car to invest in some stickers and some merch for my “Brand” SLOTH. I was still at my first job as a senior designer and I was riding my bike there everyday. Round trip…it was around 60miles.

Maybe a little more with a wrong turn or the occasional speed chase from one of the homeless people that slept under the i-17 bridge behind Castles and Coasters. But thats a story for another day…

There’s a memory that is burned into my brain from that year of bike ride adventures.

It had been raining a lot and at the time my dad who’s name is also Tim, who just has more grey hair than me… Which is probably from the nights I used to sneak out as a high school kid ha. Different story

Anyways

There was a couple days in that week I was hitching rides with my dad to my office because his office was pretty close to mine.

One morning…
Just getting out of morning traffic on hwy 101 and merging onto the hwy 51 to head to central phoenix. I wasn’t sad or mad but more of a stuck feeling. I just knew what I was doing at that moment wasnt what I wanted to be doing and that there was something better ahead. So just kept staring out the window.

Hoping if I stared long enough I’d be where I wanted to be.

me: All I want to do is to be able to do is my art and pay my bills. If I could just pay my bills and do art I would die happy. Thats all I want in life. I don’t need anything else.

dad: You will. Just keep on doing what you’re doing and it’ll happen eventually.

That memory seems to randomly creep into my head at random times. Always at the right time. It brings me back to who I really am at the core. Simple, present in the moment, easy going and just down for an adventure.

Fast forward 10yrs later I do a whole lot more than just pay my bills with my art. I support 4 kids and a hard ass working wife who would put a navy seal to shame and she’s way hot.

Its weird, we forget those things we used to wish for that we now have now. I do it all the time and I have to revisit that memory to remind myself that im actually getting to live my dream life.

Like an old toy we forgot about, the forgotten blessing of a past time that leaves us chasing the next thing and sometimes leaving us unsatisfied with exactly what we once wanted maybe even demanded from life and received.

It’s like were all just kids in old bodies. Asking for things and then getting them and then whining because we want more and then were not grateful for what we got because were too busy chasing that damn wind.

Gratitude slaps

As im working to release this next big project of mine IAMSLOTH NFT I am also releasing a new piece of merch every 6 weeks. Every design is going to be thought out and have a story behind it.

The drops will be limited

DROP #1

“STOP TO SMELL THE FLOWERS, OR LIFE WILL PASS YOU BY”

There will only be 35 of these shirts and they will be released on March 15th at 8am PST on iamsloth.com

The design is inspired by that memory and is also the core reason I started calling myself “SLOTH”

You don’t have to be lazy to slow down.
You don’t have to be lazy to be present.
You do have to be intentional &
You don’t have to miss out on life.

The more we recognizing what is happening all around us the more we become grateful for what we have and the more you see who needs to be seen and see what needs to get done and the sooner you realize you probably alread

y have what you’ve always wanted you’re just too busy staring at the clouds you missed the flowers all around you.

Cheers to smelling more flowers
SLOTH
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