Some things are like painting on porcelain pigs — it takes time to build up a good coat of paint. And while you’re brushing colour across the stark white surface, you think it will never be covered. At first, the difference is very visible: brush strokes of plum vineyard across toilet bowl roundness, transparent and contrasting. Then with each additional layer of wispy plum streaks, they start coming together to form an opaque purple coating that looks solid from a distant but feathered on closer inspection. Life is like that: first you need to take the time to do the painting, but you also need to let the time be and not rush it. You need to allow projects, relationships, plans and ideas grow layer by layer until something emerges or something is covered with result. Is it bad that I want my painted pig to save me money, too?