Visual art, illustration, drawing, cartoons, comics, and sketches are a form of escape for me, escapism. It’s the one thing that comes a bit more naturally for me, as untrained as I am at it. I’m not a trained artist, and so I often draw in a childlike, “flat,” one-dimensional manner. But as bad as…
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I initially considered many other options, beyond teaching. I went up and down the list, and I job-shadowed, interned, volunteered, worked for a little bit, and interviewed at many different places and job settings, before I finally decided on a career in education. I seriously considered fields like mental health counseling and social work. I…
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This is what I’ve been doing lately to deal with pain and difficulty; Feel what you have to feel. Don’t suffer needlessly with it—meaning; don’t inflate it beyond its limits—but definitely feel what you have to feel. That’s the only way it’ll leave. Suppressing it or ignoring it never diminishes it, in the long run.…
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