AWW…AWW…

I spent the afternoon at a lovely New Year’s day party at Betty’s. It was nice seeing Jude and Cheryl and Larry and Cathy. They all lived near me when I rented the Glass Cottage a couple of years ago. Also met some new people.

And then I came home to this sweet exchange on the Dreaming in Script calligraphy platform:

Hey you guys!

I’m sure you would have been seeing the dedication with which Christing Kunert is going through her ES practice! It is hugely inspiring to all of us here, and I thought of making this Nameplate for her as a token of my appreciation. 🙂 

Christine, believe me when I say, it’s not often at all when a Dreamer goes through the programme with such zeal and sincerity as you, much less the second time around! Not in my experience at least, which is ~4 years now. 😀

Thank you for being such an amazing motivator to pick up our pens and work a little harder on refining our scripts with each day of consistent practice! It has been fabulous getting to know you here! <3

—Sneha. (student mentor)

Beautiful! Hear, hear! Thank you for all of your hard work this year! Your script has made such incredible progress in the months you have been with us and I hope that you will continue to push yourself and your study for years to come. 🙂 

—David (DIS owner)

My response: Aww…you guys… :). What a nice surprise for New Year’s day. Thank you very much. As I have said before (and as Casey Stengel taught me), it’s only work if you’d rather be doing something else. There is nothing else that I would rather be doing (at least the majority of the time). Calligraphy in general, and this class in particular, have been such a gift. Thanks Sneha, David and Tony for always being so dedicated as well. Your feedback and interest go such a long, long way for me. I feel this is essential for a good, continued, guided practice. I couldn’t do it independently. 

I’m in the final strech for the graduation process. I just received my new pen and nibs, so I submitted a redo of my final “trained script.” It’s not a huge difference to the casual observer, but I sure liked it a lot better, even though there were a couple of ink blobs.

I retook the quiz and still got three wrong, which gives me a 94%. Not sure, but I think I need 95%. I’m waiting to hear from David. There as a bit of a snag. When David sent the email that I could retake the quiz, I couldn’t get it to work. I kept clicking on an answer, and nothing would happen. When I tried it the last time, it worked, but I hadn’t paid attention to the fact that there were two correct answers, and I only selected the one I was experimenting with. I explained to David what happened, and he said he would reset it again, since I got it right the first time, but when I finally took the quiz this morning, I intentionally answered the first question wrong because I felt like I was cheating.

So, we’ll see where I go from here. Happy New Year!!