How do I get past the guilt of making art when I should be making money?😐

What happens if you remove the word “should”? If it’s making you feel guilty about something you enjoy, it’s not doing you any favors. Do you have enough money to take care of your needs? Once you do, you are allowed to choose what you value more. Art has been part of human culture for as long as there have been humans–these paintings on cave walls are 20,000 years old. https://bit.ly/bc-lascaux Compared to that, money was invented an eyeblink ago.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.