Greetings Reader -

I took in a wonderful exhibition of paintings, prints, and other works by Vivian Browne at the Phillips Collection here in D.C. last week.

In addition to her artwork, there was a photograph of Browne in her loft space in Soho, a neighborhood in Manhattan long associated with artists and galleries.

As I looked at the photograph of her in her long open space, surrounded by artist’s materials and works in progress, I remembered how I once thought that this was exactly where I would be someday.

When I was a kid, I painted all the time. I even stretched my own canvases.

I liked creating art. I liked thinking of myself as an artist.

I didn’t like doing the work of becoming an artist.

I was blessed with a little natural talent but I was missing something: the thing that really makes an artist an artist.

When I got to High School, I finally met someone who could see into the place where that something would have been if I had had it: my art teacher, Paul Glorioso.

And he could see that it wasn’t there.

He didn’t tell me right away, though. Instead, Mr. Glorioso spent three years teaching me most of what I still know about the principles of art and design. And he encouraged me, often in the manner of an insult comic, to explore my potential as an artist.

He encouraged me to get out of my own way; he told me I did my best work when I wasn’t trying.

And he encouraged me to look for the thing that I was missing without explicitly telling me that there was something I needed to find.

But I knew. And in my senior year, when things started running off the rails and it was clear that I was lost, he finally told me straight up.

I asked him to tell me what it was that I was missing, but he said he couldn’t: he said I would either find it or I wouldn’t.

I think he knew I wouldn’t. And I didn’t. I still don’t know what it is.

So much for my vision of living an artist’s life in a Soho loft.

I never envisioned myself as a writer. No one ever encouraged me to look for the thing that really makes a writer a writer.

Now, I write all the time. I write to you every week and I’ve published two books so far.

I never envisioned myself as a teacher. No one ever encouraged me to look for the thing that really makes a teacher a teacher.

Until I was 52 years-old. Then someone finally told me that I should be a teacher.

Dozens of online courses and workshops and 15 years of yoga classes and teacher trainings later, it’s safe to say that that’s what I am.

And, as it turns out, I like doing the work of becoming a writer and teacher.

Why did it take so long for me to figure out what I should be doing?

Because I didn’t have a toolkit that could guide me toward an understanding what my most valuable talents really were or how to connect them to my most deeply-held values.

Eventually, I found the tools I was missing in the wisdom texts of yoga, especially the Bhagavad-gita.

And, over time, I learned how to use those tools to develop a clear sense of what I should be doing, and, most importantly, why I should be doing it.

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- Hari-k