BELATED LIFE UPDATE: I am building a raised garden bed. The screws are crooked and sometimes stripped. The wood cuts are splintery. It is the most C- thing I have done in a very long time. I think about this post ALL THE TIME as I do my half-assed drilling.
My son is very much a perfect crayon person, to the point where, in middle school (and possibly to this day) he would freeze before writing assignments because he wanted to have everything worked out before the first word was put to (virtual) paper.
Going to a gradeless school like New College was exceptionally liberating for just this reason, I think. It's all C-, or A+ work. Just doing the work matters. Along the way, I fell in love with Sebadoh music and raku pottery, and the beautiful flaws, and leaning into the wobbly bits because they're more fun than Euclidean geometry.
(Not sure how you ever wound up doing perfect words with my very lo-fi music, but I'm very glad you did, back when.)
Thanks for sharing the wisdom of "c minus" with me : ) it's always there in my head, in my darker moments with my creativity, a little window with light streaming in : )
BELATED LIFE UPDATE: I am building a raised garden bed. The screws are crooked and sometimes stripped. The wood cuts are splintery. It is the most C- thing I have done in a very long time. I think about this post ALL THE TIME as I do my half-assed drilling.
My son is very much a perfect crayon person, to the point where, in middle school (and possibly to this day) he would freeze before writing assignments because he wanted to have everything worked out before the first word was put to (virtual) paper.
Going to a gradeless school like New College was exceptionally liberating for just this reason, I think. It's all C-, or A+ work. Just doing the work matters. Along the way, I fell in love with Sebadoh music and raku pottery, and the beautiful flaws, and leaning into the wobbly bits because they're more fun than Euclidean geometry.
(Not sure how you ever wound up doing perfect words with my very lo-fi music, but I'm very glad you did, back when.)
Thanks for sharing the wisdom of "c minus" with me : ) it's always there in my head, in my darker moments with my creativity, a little window with light streaming in : )
I absolutely love the drawing of the feral parakeets! I can FEEL the atmosphere.
Kate! I needed this today!
I'm in a writing workshop. Today is the day my C- effort gets workshopped. 😰
Kate, the idea of aiming for a C- causes me such visceral terror that I will not be able to stop thinking about the “why” behind that.
🥲