Charlie and Leo have occupied me now for one year. They talk about ideas like "making it" and good indicators. All I see is a couple of people who do what they love to do and sell to other people the stuff to do it all too.

Leo works at the classroom tables or sales counter on his and others' radio-controlled helicopters. He flies a small yellow one inside of me and boy does that tickle. I'm familiar with fans that blow on my walls, but my ceiling and floor itch with the unaccustomed breezes.

Charlie flits from one kind of project to another. She has three paintings in progress stacked in the class area, unfinished jewelry, card, and scrapbook projects, collections of clay, string, and paper, and a continual little stack of new projects to start. Right now, she is knitting and goes between three knitted projects.

Maybe these projects are what they mean when they talk about "making it"?