Ah yes. That picture was made in Auguat 2017, maybe a week it was delivered, so the black screen-printing/glazing was still black and not the faded hue of, ironically, a latte.
At this point I will stop because I could give you the history of every mug I have in the cabinet and no one wants to read that.
I relate with the going all-in on, say, an interest or a topic of research, wherein that is all I’ll focus on as I catch up to a point where one can begin to have a fuller sense of that interest or topic. When I was younger, I might have done similarly with a class of objects or items within a specific interest area. As I’ve aged, new interests to come up have tended to centre less around what’s collectible and more around what all I can learn from it — most of it being intangible. This came in handy for entering university as late as I did and why, for instance, I took on an ancillary interest in library information science-related methods — perfect for archival work.
This ties in with that general notion how a certain number of hours of a person studying a topic or learning a discipline brings them to a level of competence of that topic (or interest) where they could, in turn, use that knowledge to teach others, with some confidence, what they’ve learnt/synthesized.
The interest list (in some cases, more “graveyard”, whenever I’d reach a point when there was little more to learn or do) spanning my life is all over the place. But then again, life is sort of like that, too.
