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I Wanted To Be A Nun As A Kid. But Became An Intuitive Painting Facilitator Instead.
When I was 8 years old and in the third grade we were given the assignment to write our autobiography. I don’t remember much about what I wrote. In my memory, I don’t see words, only the thin, lined composition notebook with the black and white speckled cover and my large, looping childs script nestled comfortably within the light blue lines of the notebook paper. At the end of the notebook we were instructed to write a paragraph about what we wanted to be when we grew up. Again, I don’t remember much about what I actually wrote. But what I CAN see so incredibly vividly in great detail is an image that I cut out of a book or magazine and then pasted on that page. And the image was that of a nun. The image I chose was a drawing, not a photograph, and it portrayed a young woman wearing a long, black habit with a white wimple framing her peaceful, smiling face and a black veil falling down her back. What I remember saying about the picture was that I wanted to be a school teacher. And since I was raised Catholic and all […]
Chris Zydel