What motivates you?

I thought a few words, probably less than five, would answer today’s prompt, but here I am explaining Beauty and the Blues. Motivators show up and disappear a mile a minute. Death, life, peace, war, famine, feast, deceit, honesty, kindness, and brutality have been known to motivate me. They all fall into two categories: comfort and discomfort, or ease and disease. That’s an easy filter that both artificial intelligence and the princes of the world will have major problems using to solve the mystery of slave trade, colonialism, patriotism, homicide, and the human longing for beauty and peace. I think I have a simple motivation continuum for a complicated family.