Week 12 Famous Last Words, Seeing the Light at the End of the Tunnel.

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 Famous Last Words.

Many of us are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It is nearing the end of my final semester. My degree program is a five-year program. I may have taken a little longer than that to get to this point. I have a large family with large family demands, so I haven’t completed the five years in a continuous fashion. But, in a few weeks it will finally be done. That is refreshing and exhausting all at the same time. 

This semester has been a huge challenge. I thought that last semester was going to be my heaviest, but my professional life has taken on new challenges that I am eager to face this Spring. Between the demands of studio this semester, I have found little time to be a supportive dad or a helpful husband. This class has been a little more challenging than others that I could have enrolled in for this final stretch, but I am glad that I have chosen to learn about the Indian Epics. Not only have I started to fill a gaping whole in what I know about Indian culture (it is a fascination I have had for a while), I have rediscovered a love for fictional writing that I forgot I had. I have thoroughly enjoyed the Storybook process and what it has helped me learn through our topical research as well as reading other’s work. 

This weekend as been a joy in that I brought my Storybook’s narrative to a conclusion. I will step back from the story for a few days, but I am looking forward to making one last pass over the over-arching story line, revising it, and publishing it for final submission. In a very small way, I feel like the main character is a reflection of myself over this semester. Like him, I am anxious to move on to bigger and better things having the knowledge and awareness of experience that comes for exploring the hypothetical world.