educated - Emily P.G. Erickson

It Was Always In You

“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you.” Wow. (Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westovers; hand lettering by Emily PG Erickson)

What have you been surprised to discover was in you all along?⁣

Grains Of Sand Incalculable

“...All the decisions that go into making a life — the choices people make together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock.” This is again from Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover hand lettered by Emily PG Erickson

What seemingly small decisions in your life have made you marvel?⁣

A Crucial Skill

The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand (Tara Westover; Hand lettered by Emily PG Erickson)

The pain and possibility of learning something new.