Whatever You Dream You Can Do, Begin It

 Whatever you can do or dream you can do begin it. Boldness has Genius Power and Magic in it. Goethe

I’ll begin by telling you about the small breaks. The pinholes of opportunity that allowed me to progress. There are the big ones like being hired at Disney Feature Animation as a computer cleanup person.* My dad thought I was cleaning the machines. Working my way up to Animator then Lead animator at Industrial Light and Magic on shows like Dragonheart and Mars Attacks, and lots of non obvious, smaller ones. 

I’d like to point to the smaller ones especially. These are the ones that meant the world to me when they happened, even though they didn’t necessarily dash me forwards in my career. Or at least I didn’t think so at the time. 

**** thank you Tina!