Gazebo Gazing

There are a lot of funny ideas you get in your head as a kid – things you absorb that you don’t realize you’ve carried into adulthood. We all have them – we follow a certain family code, abide by rules of our social group, and accept certain ideas as fact (until we become old enough to question them). We also randomly assign certain aspirational characters that make perfect sense to an 11-year-old brain, but certainly bears re-examination years later… I may be on my own little island with this one, but when I was a kid I had certain ideas what success would look like. And not the typical white picket fence + husband + American Dream...