Deodorant and music have played a big role in the past few months for me. Shout out to Men's Degree, you've served your duty and then some. I would go into detail about obtaining an internship and what it took to do so, but I am way too tired to talk about trial and error. What matters is the motivation I've instilled within myself to wake up at 5 am to work a 9-5 job two days a week in the city. Free concerts a block away from where I work and strangers everywhere. How about that for size. The people I've met within these past few months have been interesting nonetheless. Here's a list of people I've met and what was shared between them and I.
Douglas. Age undetermined. Leather tan skin and California blonde hair. From Venice, California raised in the city. By the look of his wrinkles, I can tell this man has walked the Earth with his Birkenstock's and macho relaxed attitude for more than five decades. Only talking for five minutes since I had to go back from break, he gave me some Cali insight and plane tips. Julia. A twenty something year old girl who goes to Chicago's Art Institute a block away from where I work. I noticed her sketching by the ever so "famous" Chicago landmark, The Bean. My phone had died and I needed/wanted to check an email I sent out to a coworker to grab coffee (with my no money). I was yearning to at least have a meaningful conversation with an eclectic soul. Julia was able to give just that. Asking to use her phone then lead to me sitting down and discussing how our experiences in art class has transformed our lives. She told me her intake on how amazing our senses are. Hearing for example. She explained it as a different form of matter. Our ears are able to sense and pick up vibrations that travel through the air (like tiny ghosts she explained) to then graze over our ear grass like receptors to produce what we know as sound, language, and then on. Just the matter of thinking of sound as a visible ghost traveling through our ear to tell a secret, good or bad is a new glance. All in all, I was impressed by the ten minute conversation her and I had. Hope she's still drawing out there somewhere. With only three days left here to work with The San Jose Group I will miss meeting such eclectic strangers. Here's to five to ten minute conversations:
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