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After 4 years of plumbing I finally tried my hand at stained glass
I've been running pipes all day for over a decade and last winter I took a beginner stained glass class at the local art center just to get out of the house. Six months later I've got a tiny window panel hanging in my kitchen and it's the first thing I look at when I wake up. Did anyone else find their creative side completely separate from their paycheck?
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kelly3852d ago
That feeling hits different, doesn't it?
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ellis.faith2d ago
Honestly it's wild how we all seem to need something that doesn't have a practical purpose just to feel human again. Like, for me, it's taking apart old lawnmower engines on weekends. Nobody's paying me to do it, there's no deadline, and if I mess up I just throw the parts in a bucket and start over. But fixing a roof leak for a customer? That's just problem after problem after problem with pressure and money riding on every move. Seems like the older I get the more I realize we're all just looking for one thing in life that doesn't have to be useful or profitable or solve anything for anybody else.
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My 7 year old started asking me why I never made anything pretty, so I signed up for a stained glass class at the community college. Now I have three little suncatchers in my bathroom window and they catch the light just right in the morning. It's weird how I can spend 8 hours fixing someone's clogged drain and feel dead inside, but 20 minutes of cutting glass makes me feel like a real person again. I think it's because plumbing is all about fixing problems other people made, but stained glass is making something from nothing. Nobody asks me to explain why I spent $80 on glass pieces or why it matters that the solder lines are smooth.
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