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My posting has dropped off in the last *year* I just went through and read each blog entry, and I lament that I wasn’t more active with it as time passed. It’s becoming clear to me that I have myriad interests, all of them valid, yet have trouble focusing on projects to their final state…

My goals have maintained their same trajectory, though I still have not updated the pages I wanted, nor begun to focus soley on my work…

I have made some great strides toward integrating my athletic persuits and artistic ones with “Pisces Get To Water” and “RISE”…now it’s just a matter of doing onesimple tasks.

1. “Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

-Unknown (saw it at a t-shirt at heps)

Published by Pete Ippel

Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001. In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally. Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time. As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.

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