No one else has so accurately painted the birds and the natural environment in which they were found. In 1808, he opened a store in Louisville, Kentucky. It was after he went bankrupt in 1819 that he began traveling and painting birds. Shake off the dust and go on. An adventurous life requires risk-taking.
Great courage is needed to face real change.
A great failure can be the influence that enables us to risk and change. When we listen to the exalting music of Handel's Messiah, we usually assume it was surely written by a man at the pinnacle of his success, but that is not the case. In fact, it was written after he had suffered a stroke. It was written while Handel lived in poverty amid bleak surroundings. Shake off the dust and go on.