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did you know you could make things?

when i was little my dad told me i could be anything i wanted to be. he also told me

if anyone can do it, you can.

i cannot tell you how literally i have taken this word. it has become my life blood.

if anyone can make that, i can. you can. you could make these.

any time i see something i like i find myself picking it up, introspecting, inspecting how it is made and figuring out how to make it. i have lived my life this way. my daughter does the same. today she made an empire-state-building-backpack out of gold cardstock and pink yarn.

i think lego movie was monumental in putting my brain into cinemax. i dont know if thats good grammar but when i watched that movie it showed my brain in cartoons about legos. because people had a problem or wanted to make a thing and they just looked around at what was in the room like the terminator or iron man with weird notations and electron notes that found the pieces they were looking for and came up with new ideas on how to innovate and make the thing they need with the things they can find.

hi, thats my brain. thats what it is like to be me. every day.

my dad told me if anyone could do *that thing*, he or i or anyone could.

why do you think you are just a normal nomad person that cant create? there is nothing between or different than you and that person you see on whatever tv show or youtube channel or blog or the writer of that book that keeps you from picking up the tools and materials to make or create or do that thing. if theres anything i want to leave you with in this life, it is that.

im really tipsy right now.