Drawing owls

On the above image, Ben Casnocha writes:

"I believe a key reason so many people on the road to mastery call it quits is not because drawing a beautiful owl in pencil is superhumanly hard. It's because they thought it would be easy."

Kinda reminds me of what too many Americans expect of democracy and the notion of change. As Obama knows, it ain't that easy. And as the Founders knew, it never would be. (Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan)