Listen To The Chatter In Your Brain

When I was in high school being my degenerate self, my mother continuously pushed me to apply to art school. I think it was a mixture of me struggling with basic academia and my committed curiosity with clay pottery, photography, painting, all the good stuff. ⁣⁣

My mother’s soft suggestion of “𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘐𝘚𝘋, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦…” always made my eyes roll, which I feel TERRIBLE for admitting, but I was an angsty teenager holding little value in my parents opinions.⁣⁣ I settled for different school.

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Fast forward a few decades later, I am resting in savasana at Newport Power Yoga. My brain is going miles a minute and I’m thinking to myself, 𝐈 𝗪𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄. ⁣⁣

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𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 more creative outlets. ⁣⁣

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 more connections.⁣⁣

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 more education. ⁣⁣

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 to create with my hands. ⁣⁣

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 to build.⁣⁣

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The realization was so euphoric, I went home and googled, “woodworking class” and lo and behold, RISD populated with their Furniture & Woodworking class starting in November. With just a few clicks, I was registered. I have now started the process of turning “I want” into “I am”.⁣⁣

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭, 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆 𝐑 𝐎 𝗪 -- 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰. ⁣⁣also, listen to your mother!

📸: @megheriot

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