work

I'm at work. I work at my church's office. I work nights. My dream is to teach photography at Lake Forest College, which is very nearby and not as intimidating as the schools I went to as a student: The Rhode Island School of Design, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Parsons The New School for Design, Columbia College Chicago. (I have a BFA from SAIC and an MFA from Columbia). Anyway, Lake Forest College has a basic darkroom techniques class I would like to someday teach. Most schools nowadays, if you're gonna teach photography, you have to be a wiz at Photoshop, so if I taught somewhere else that required that knowledge I'd probably have to take a couple digital imaging classes at Oakton (a nearby community college) because I get all confused about the layers and layer masks and everything like that. But my husband and I are pretty comfortable with the way things are now, so I'm not very motivated to change anything. Also, even though I know it's not some impressive career, I like working at the church. I've known my boss ever since I went to my church's Catholic grade school, through being both a teenager and an adult leader in the church's youth group which she runs, I got married at this church, and this church has just been such an important part of my life for decades and it feels like a safe place, it feels like family, and I feel good when I help someone arrange a wedding and I'm glad I can be there for them when they have to arrange a funeral. So, when all's said and done, I think I'm exactly where I need to be at this point in my life.

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be" -- The Beatles