I’ve always been slightly jealous of people who knew from the beginning exactly what they wanted to be and proceeded, as if on a super-highway, through the training, apprenticeship and mastery, earning respect and a stable place in the hierarchy to which they aspired. I knew many of them from the classical music world – [...]
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Time has flown and dragged; I’m in a strange state, trying to reimagine my life in New York while milking every last experience in Africa. I have an urge to stay and seek opportunity here, live a nice life on the peninsula, join the yacht club and hang out with the comfortable, spirited and perhaps [...]
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Time has flown and dragged; I’m in that strange state of trying to reimagine New York and to milk every last experience in Africa. It’s hard now because I have an urge to stay and seek opportunity here, live a nice life on the peninsula, join the yacht club and hang out with comfortable, spirited [...]
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KLM flight to Amsterdam. I am off. Gone. The trek has started. It would seem so grandiose to say I have begun a hero’s journey, but it feels as if I am on a mythical quest. A transformation from one stage of my life to another. And that everything I ever thought, studied, aspired to, [...]
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Many years ago when I was a budding and impassioned young painter in junior high school art classes, a teacher found me staring morosely at a canvas on which I had just made a giant mistake. “It’s ruined,” I said. He looked at the canvas, unsure which from my young perspective comprised the offending colors [...]
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