Hello!
Wow! Actually forgot I had this travel blog ready and willing.
A pity that I got caught up and forgot about it.
But that was then.
That was when a boy who was in love and felt like Korea was going to be a one off thing and didn't really need a travel blog.
But as 2015 tolls in and I sit here at my desk at job #2 in Korea, I realize.
I'm kind of going to be here for a while. Might as well try and support the actions of why when my friends say "should I come to Korea?" I always and willing say "Yes. Really. Super. Please come."
And not out of loneliness!
Moving to South Korea (for reasons that for the time being we should say were simply for "Getting a Job") was unknowingly one of the best things I did with my life after college.
I'm going to write a big reflection post on the past year of working in Korea and then hopefully (because I really should) I'll start properly writing a nice little travel blog about what its like to live in Korea.
Well...what its like to live in Korea when you are 23 year old bearded man who still gets way too excited when he sees a dinosaur or when Transformers comes on.
Until the next time....
Dink
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ReplyDeleteMay I wish you hope? As if to underscore that sentiment, a quote; from James Krenov: The Fine Art of Cabinetmaking. "I mention luck. With these you make discoveries. You develop a feel for what is in a log or a plank, you care - and that is a driving force. It is the beginning of an excitement which carries you on to other discoveries, to the heart of the work itself.
ReplyDeleteAt the start this interest or curiosity is more a matter of feeling than of accurate facts. Finally it is both feeling and facts, but of the two, feeling is the more important. Without curiosity and a sense leading to the living richness that is in some woods, one will always remain something of an engineer --- even as successful craftsman. Many successful craftsmen are, alas only engineers.
Wood is elusive in its patterns, changing in its moods, and only partly predictable in its ways. What is vital in all this is to build up your experience on the basis of what I would like to imagine are the natural laws of wood --- all the while allowing your sense of curiosity and enthusiasm for this wonderful material to help you put together the intimate experiences that make cabinetmaking something more --- or is it less? --- than a profession.
I suppose the first stages of becoming a craftsman are very, very important; it is then we go through hardly recognizable critical periods. Times when, often by chance, we make discoveries that increase our interest and enthusiasm and give us strength. This helps us further; we are able to overcome disappointments, and go on. We are vulnerable: the remark of a teacher, a work from a friend can make a difference in our lives, If we do not come upon those discoveries, and use them , then we may not reach the point where we can, with this first knowledge and early eagerness, be rewarded by the joyous harmony of wholeness in our work."
Peace be with you.