On my flight home from Los Angeles (I was there for the fabulous Typecon conference — more on that later), I watched the documentary Beyond the Lighted Stage for what I think was the third time.

During one segment of the film, the filmmakers explore the period in which Rush were recording and promoting their landmark 1981 release, Moving Pictures. Through a part of that segment, the song “Tom Sawyer” played in the background.

For whatever reason, my brain latched onto those lines from the song and I realized that they so suscinctly sum up how I try to approach just about everything. As a designer, drummer, music enthusiast, and I hope, well-rounded human being, it’s exactly that which drives me to do over-extend myself in my own work — to hope for the best, to try to do more than I’m able — or at least think I am. To push myself and others toward new things and to never sit still for too long.