There comes a time

I won't say it comes for every person, but it HAS come for me. I think part of it is getting older. You know, I'm soon to be not just 30, but IN my 30's. There's a difference. It may be subtle, but it's there. In any event, the time has come in my life where I'm asking myself what will be my legacy. I'm getting to the point where kids are looking less and less likely, though I wouldn't object to having them at some point, but generally, that's an endeavor best (not "only," but "best") undertaken as a duo, in my opinion, and that, too, is looking less and less likely. I think I'm getting picky. But I digress, as per usual. So if offspring isn't my gift to the world, what IS? A legacy is generally determined at the end of life, and not in the middle (or infancy, as Li would say), but here I am marking the course for my own destiny. Well, at least the first step, anyway. In some small way, I feel like I'm putting a drop in the bucket of my obligation to society this winter by starting a student journal at school. You know, the students here work so hard (as they do at all architecture schools, I imagine), but they get so little respect or recognition. Even the professors that teach here act as though they are deigning to be in our presence, rather than acknowledging that without us, they really wouldn't exist. So, rather than leave recognition to the professors (who generally have their heads up their bums, and only like stuff that looks reMARKably like the stuff THEY produce), I'm recognizing projects that are interesting, innovative, creative, well thought-out, or just that I liked. I'm trying to include a broad range of projects, but I also want to curate the projects into a theme - some thread that connects all the projects together. I guess I'll determine that when I look at the projects and see if a theme emerges. Otherwise, I'll just pull something out of my butt and call it "brilliant!" I say "I" because, at this point, I'm the only one working on this, but we shall see what the future holds. So, there you have it. Tangents is born. And this way, I avoid 3 am feedings. Huzzah!