Owning Boxes

It's wintertime in Gwangju, snow is falling, and I'm trying not to - quite literally - fall with it. I just finished another theatrical performance as Sound Specialist with the Gwangju Performance Project (the production was Proof), I'm a week away from finishing my second master's class through American University, I'm still airing weekly on my radio show, I still have my column in Gwangju News titled "Gwangju Works," and I fly home next week to spend what I believe will be two wonderful weeks with my family in Florida.

As hard work is often peppered with setbacks and/or negatives, I've had one or two, but yesterday I received one of the best and most encouraging compliments I have ever received. In discussing why I was recently passed over for something I truly wanted and knew I would excel at, a friend of mine simply told me this: 

"[The person chosen] may have been able to check the required boxes, but you own them."

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