I have been working on Part 2 of my social justice series, but today I'm going to take a break from it and talk about my summer of art.
Before I do that, I want to backtrack and talk a little bit about my grandmother. See, her mother died when she was only a week old, so my grandmother didn't really know her mom. Into her 80's, she could be heard saying "My mother never taught me...".
Now... I love my grandmother, and I am sorry that she lost her mom. But I figure, that's something that dominated the first 20, perhaps 30 years of her life. I'd accept that excuse from a youngster.
Eventually? Somewhere in the 20s or 30s, I would hope, I figure that I am responsible for my own life. Whatever happened in my childhood that held me back then... well, now I'm a grownup, and responsible for my own learning. If I want to learn something, I'm going to set out to do it. Even old-school, I could always go to the library and find books with ideas, read the newspaper for classes and seminars, check the phone book for schools. New-school, it can start with Google.
In the past, I have written about the hangups and holdups that I had with my music and art. As an undergrad, while I did participate in the bands, I focused my non-class activities on engineering homework and other things, rather than music practice.
Before I do that, I want to backtrack and talk a little bit about my grandmother. See, her mother died when she was only a week old, so my grandmother didn't really know her mom. Into her 80's, she could be heard saying "My mother never taught me...".
Now... I love my grandmother, and I am sorry that she lost her mom. But I figure, that's something that dominated the first 20, perhaps 30 years of her life. I'd accept that excuse from a youngster.
Eventually? Somewhere in the 20s or 30s, I would hope, I figure that I am responsible for my own life. Whatever happened in my childhood that held me back then... well, now I'm a grownup, and responsible for my own learning. If I want to learn something, I'm going to set out to do it. Even old-school, I could always go to the library and find books with ideas, read the newspaper for classes and seminars, check the phone book for schools. New-school, it can start with Google.
In the past, I have written about the hangups and holdups that I had with my music and art. As an undergrad, while I did participate in the bands, I focused my non-class activities on engineering homework and other things, rather than music practice.
