Besides art and fashion, I really love history. I really love cultures, people their stories, their lives, and I love animals.
I've never really liked school. I've always had a hard time with studying and writing about things I really don't care about. I hate that you have to take general ed and spend time and money on subjects that past a certain point aren't interesting. I do feel knowledge on a wide range of topics is incredibly valuable... it is more of an attention span issue on my end. I honestly can't retain things that don't connect with me. I also have to connect with a teacher on a level and respect that is hard to create sometimes. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that I have to work while going to school and so much of my energy is taking by my day job that it unfortunately leaves very little to invest in classes. I have to takes classes "just for fun", without any pressure or greater expectations or I stress the fuck out.
Anyways, with that said I love learning about things that are cool to me. I did take several anthropology classes at the local jr. college... kinda just for fun or in phases where I thought I wanted to be a real college student. I wish I could I consistently work and learn and pay all my money... happily. I'm really not against school and skills and I hope to someday make money and be stoked (and possibly go back to school for real to do it.) I just haven't gotten there yet. Anyways, I really did especially love physical anthropology when I took classes... evolution, animals, primates, questions, history, digging in the dirt, bones, life, death, Darwin, language, communitation, botany, earth, UGHHHHH! It does excite me.
And vintage clothing and culture and art and fabrics all fit into this passion and this interest for me. Its all history and life. And that is why I love hunting and finding artifacts of fashion. It also inspired my shop name, its the three physical remains of a species... bones, teeth, and antlers. BONETOOTHANTLER.
Also, I am reading the coolest book about the life of Dian Fossey who lived in Africa studying mountain gorillas. Its called Woman in The Mists. I really love it and she is such an inspiration following her passion to death, she was killed by poachers. I would really love to do a post on her when I finish this beyond amazing book that includes her journal entries and research. She writes, "Neither destiny nor fate took me to Africa. Nor romance. I had a deep wish to see and live with wild animals
in a world that hadn't been completely changed by humans."
This post kind of took off on its own little path... hope it somehow made a little circle like it did in my mind!
