Congrats on all your accomplishments as dean, but most of all, congratulations on simply surviving! I think you’re already doing one thing that can help turn off your brain--or at least redirect its attention--which is writing. The photography sounds like another great pursuit. But ONLY if you do it old school. I’m talking film, negatives, developing by hand in a dark room of your own construction, the works!
You will be amazed at how quickly you will adjust to your new life. Right now it feels like the world came to stop and dropped you off, but trust me you will be amazed. Your creativity will come back, and it will feel good. You won't feel the guilt of having to push it aside, as you have for 6 years, or worse fight to find it. Trust me, I know of what I speak.
Thanks for all your hard and smart work as dean, Chuck. To do it as effectively as you did, and through such turbulent times, is remarkable. Happy battery-recharging!
Congrats on all your accomplishments as dean, but most of all, congratulations on simply surviving! I think you’re already doing one thing that can help turn off your brain--or at least redirect its attention--which is writing. The photography sounds like another great pursuit. But ONLY if you do it old school. I’m talking film, negatives, developing by hand in a dark room of your own construction, the works!
Challenge accepted! Now all I need is a camera that actually uses film (Step 1).
Mark, I hope you are doing well--I would love to catch up sometime... say, on a patio in Canada?
You will be amazed at how quickly you will adjust to your new life. Right now it feels like the world came to stop and dropped you off, but trust me you will be amazed. Your creativity will come back, and it will feel good. You won't feel the guilt of having to push it aside, as you have for 6 years, or worse fight to find it. Trust me, I know of what I speak.
I will definitely take this to heart--and yes, I know your insight here is beyond even Yoda's.
Thanks for all your hard and smart work as dean, Chuck. To do it as effectively as you did, and through such turbulent times, is remarkable. Happy battery-recharging!
Thanks so much! That's really kind of you to say.