Reading these lines from You're Leaving When? made me smile:
I was drowning in doodles, sketch pads, and DIY manga. The walls were already decorated with favored pieces. Ezra was talented, but no Picasso. Even Picasso’s mother might have had the same thought when culling the most precious of his childhood drawings: “Pablo’s talented, but he’s no El Greco.”
J's childhood artwork can be found around the house specially in my office. Some of the pre-elementary production was repurposed into collage or compacted in other ways to preserve. The abundance of the early art is indeed a challenge to deal with.
The book is a breeze to read and though the author's has more than her fair share of troubles, she is has a fantastic sense of humor about her situation and is also very self-aware:
As is typical, when faced with a truly important decision, I approached it with all the planning of someone fleeing a burning house. I’ve made several major life decisions in this way—moves across the country, marriages—reasoning that if I think too hard about it, I’ll never do it.
I would imagine a lot of people who have made big mistakes in their life look back at those moments when the bad decisions were made and feel much the same way as Gurwitch does.
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