Tonight, I had the opportunity to chat with an old friend I haven’t seen in years.<\/p>\n
During our brief time together, they offered me some very kind and much needed words of encouragement. <\/p>\n
“You’re still doing it, you’re still making art full time. You’re making it happen. I’m so proud of you. I’m so envious of what you’re doing.”<\/p>\n
Here is someone who from my perspective has their life in order. This person has a career they enjoy, a permanent home in a nice part of the city, a spouse, and a child. <\/p>\n
And this person is envious of what I have: A tiny basement apartment with no windows, a rapidly depleting bank account (well, I’m still doing about 55.3 trillion dollars better than the American economy, so I guess I don’t have it that<\/em> bad) a pile of new paintings that is accumulating more slowly than I would like, and a broken cellphone.<\/p>\n Wow. All these little things kinda made me lose sight of one big thing: unlike 90% of my former classmates, I’m still doing it. I’m still making art. That dream I had back when I was five is now a reality. I had forgotten about that.<\/p>\n A few nice words can really make someone’s day. Thank you. <\/p>\n OK, back to the studio…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight, I had the opportunity to chat with an old friend I haven’t seen in years. During our brief time together, they offered me some very kind and much needed words of encouragement. “You’re still doing it, you’re still making art full time. You’re making it happen. I’m so proud of you. I’m so envious … Continue reading Words of Encouragement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,40,115],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blog","tag-personal","tag-words-of-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}