Austin Kleon

But I had a mom who was a guidance counselor at one time.

She was a principal by the time I went to college.

But she kind of knew the lay of the land of the Ohio kind of university landscape.

And she's a bobcat.

So I actually wear her bobcat green apron when I'm doing the dishes.

Yeah, that was a really cool program.

And they housed architecture there.

So that's the most important fact in my life because my wife was an architecturer.

student.

And that's where we met on that Western campus.

But that was just like a kind of living, learning community.

It was like very laid back.

It was like it was a lot of misfit kids, like kids that wouldn't necessarily be like main campus Miami kids.

It was just a really special place.

And then they shuttered the place not too long after I left.

The administration kind of said this is too expensive or hard for our bottom line.

So I think it still exists in some form, but it's not exactly what it was.

By the time that my formal education was over, I thought it very paltry and I didn't think it was that big of a deal.

And it's just the more I, the further I get away from it, the more I see little seeds that were planted then and how they've like bloomed and grown now.

And I think that happens to almost everyone.