Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Hey, hey, little Thursday thunder here. Bradley Schrobin, a repossible podcast coming to you from train from Prague to Munich. You know, the journey, not the destination. They say journey or the destination or the journey. And the destination. I think it is the journey and the destination. We're on our way to Munich, but this is part of the journey. And part of the journey might be that it's stopped, that we're, we're not going. And you think, oh, but when we get to the destination, I'm going to take a quick story from something I learned in Prague from one of my favorite artists from Alphonse Mucha, a czech artist from, he was born in 1860, I think, and he was a painter, and he was commissioned or supported by some rich duke or something, and he was doing paintings. Yay, paintings. But then when he's in Paris and in art school, and then his supporter, his financial support system stopped, and so he had to get a job. And his job that he took was for the theater company that ran Sarah Bernhardt's show. Right? And so he made the posters for the show. And this is the art that I like from Bucha. I didn't actually even really know he did painting before, and then he did some painting after sort of more about czech history and stuff, slovak history and culture. And I didn't really know about that. And I've now seen it at the Mucha museum in Prague. And it's okay for me, it's just okay. That's another painter, but his art nouveau, his sort of Jugend Steele, his art nouveau from the poster era that I just, that's the stuff I love. And it was just gorgeous is really my style. And so here's the point. Here's that journey, not destination. If his destination was being an artist, a painter of paintings, then I never would have found it, much less appreciate him, appreciated him, or probably never found him, right. Because he became famous through those posters. Remember, that wasn't his goal. That wasn't his destination. That was just part of the journey on the destination that he, he thought he had for himself. And yet, I don't know. Well, would he consider that he achieved that destination? Yeah, because later he was a world renowned painter, but he was most renowned for more of the poster work that he did. And that's indeed where I found him. So just want to be open there for ideas that your destination is something you think it is, and someone else might have a little detour of your destination along your journey. Take it, because you never know when someone else when someone else's detour of your destination turns into something that you might have never realized on your own.
[00:03:19] And thus, I would have never found Alphonse Mucha through his poster art in Paris because I don't know the style I was attracted to. So I was attracted to the work that he did during his journey, and it had nothing to do with his initial or original destination. There you have it. And we're moving now. So guess what? If you think you're stuck in your journey and you're stuck on the side of the railroad tracks and not knowing where you're going or when you're going to get started, back up. I don't know, hop on somebody else's train or listen to somebody else's advice and see where they might want to take you or what they think your destination might be or even temporary destination or detour, if you like, and see where that leads you. Maybe it's not something that you think is your thing, but I don't know. Give it a go. Okay, there you have it. The train's getting loud as we're back on our way to our destination. And this is the journey. So, above all, enjoy the journey. Destination or not, it's really, really, really about the destination. Coming to you from train tracks somewhere in each other, Germany, on our destination of Munich, coming from Prague and the Czech Republic, the home of Alphonse Mucha. I'll try to share some photos, and if not, I'll share some. A link to some photos. All right, that's it for now. See you next week. Bye for now.
