Well, hello there. My name is Morgan Harper-Nichols. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I share words that I hope can make a little room for you to slow down and take a few deep breaths as you prepare for whatever lies ahead. Thanks for being here today. And now on to today's episode. The other day, I shared a video of my painting

process. I make a lot of digital art, but this particular video was about my physical painting

process because I was really excited about sharing it.

I haven't had a physical art studio space for a very long time and I'm finally starting to build that space again.

So I was really excited to share it and I shared this video and someone left a comment that made me smile.

They said, I love watching the paint dry. And immediately,

this made me think of the expression, watch paint dry, which Cambridge Dictionary defines as

used to refer to an activity that you consider extremely boring, tedious, and uninspiring. And the reason why this person's comment made

me smile is because whether they intended to or not, they used a phrase that would normally

be associated with something negative and they turned it into a positive. They love to watch

the paint dry. And this caused me to think about other moments in our life where we've been taught that waiting for something or doing some kind of tedious task is a negative thing.

We live in a time where we talk a lot about efficiency and productivity and doing things faster and better than we've done them before.

And while this line of thinking has led to great inventions that we all use today,

at the same time it can cause us to think that the moment we have to do something that takes a

lot of time that appears tedious, we should start looking for a faster way to get it done.

But the reality is that so many beautiful things take time. They take tedious work. They take

falling in love with watching paint dry. Now, let's take this a little bit further. I would imagine

that this expression, which is meant to be a funny, you know, humorous, informal expression,

was talking about watching paint dry on a wall. It probably wasn't talking about watercolor drying on a painting.

However, I think it still applies when it comes to watching paint dry on a wall. Now, I've never

watched paint dry on a wall and I don't exactly have any plans to. However, I do want to ask myself, what in my life is the equivalent of watching

paint dry on the wall that I would just say, no, absolutely, I don't have time to wait to see that

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