A Post About Thankfulness

Reminded today of the year after I graduated undergrad. Project Runway was hot, and mildly obsessed me - pushed my way into Parsons The New School for Design. During orientation, we were told the signature, “look to your left, look to your right, one of you won’t graduate” speech. But of course, I knew I wasn’t gona be one of “those people”. Ha! Little did I know, I was doomed from the start. Dating a man child that had the brain size (and shape) of a Cheerio...(IE: small + empty in the middle), back to dorm life, sleeping on a top bunk bed, and no oven due to fire restrictions. We lived on the Wall Street stop on the #2 training , if I remember correctly. Whatever the one is that hits Canal Street. “Who’s we?” You ask? I did have a wonderful roommate. She introduced herself and said she was from Korea, quick to note that she meant South Korea, and not North... although I wasn’t even thinking that was an option to begin with. But, even so, that was about all she said. Her English wasn’t that good, and neither was my Korean - go figure- so we got into a rhythm of communicating by her drawing little info-graphics for me. And then her parents finally shipped her keyboard over. Yes, by sheer luck my roommate was an insanely talented Jazz Piano major. She played often and I loved it. Beautiful music coming from the bottom bunk most evenings. But, we lost touch... happening quickly because I ended up being one of the people on the “right or left” during orientation. 😆

I barely made it through my first semester before realizing that I may have loved fashion design, but it didn’t love me. Now, looking at this photo of Rocky, a placeholder photo for me to spill my random thoughts for the night, I’m so thankful for all of this...being one of the right/left-ers...the messiness that happened to guide me back to Philly, to the life I was always supposed to live. All the deep dark holes, feeling isolated, the train rides to seemingly nowhere - while dragging huge rolls of Muslin back to my room - knowing full well that nothing was getting Draped for real, for real. 😂Thankful for it all. Randomly more thankful today than yesterday’s calendar day of required Thankfulness.🦃