boost: The Bliss of Being Understood

Mel Chua captures the blissful moment of belonging, of understanding and being understood in her grad school.

The time when I met Rebecca and Stephanie together (a Deaf academics story)

I have always been a strong reader, but I did not have much access to the internal worlds of people in the process of writing, or windows into those (eventually beautiful and polished) thoughts as they were being formed. I’d walked through museums looking at the best pottery made through all of history, behind a glass wall, on a shelf — and then been trying to make pots without seeing or talking with other people about how they used a studio. It has been so, so strange to walk into a studio that’s full of people. And it is still so strange, this notion that I can watch and interact with other people while they’re at work. The work I want to learn to do.

full post: http://melchua.com/blog/2018/11/11/the-time-when-i-met-rebecca-and-stephanie-together-a-deaf-academics-story/