When I decided that I wanted to learn how to draw, I was studying in one of the most prestigious universities in the country - and I say that with a bit of mockery. I don’t believe in prestige, in fact I find it laughable. Especially since the university’s policy of accepting only the best [...]
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Imperfection is no big deal
One of the books I enjoyed recently is “How to Self-Destruct” by Jason Seiden (I reviewed it here). In a short section of the book, Seiden discusses his four-year-old daughter’s philosophy when she’s trying something for the first time:
“If I can’t do it,” she says, “it’s no big deal. I’ll just keep at it until [...]
Lessons learned from carpentry
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I’ve always been interested in carpentry. I’m unsure what it was that initially drove my interest, but as a young teen, I was spending a lot of time looking through the Reader’s Digest Complete [...]
