This weekend I went to the opening weekend at The Assembly, a new clubhouse in San Francisco. The Assembly is located in a converted church in the Mission District, and the design team included incredible details. The first floor is an open gym with beautiful wood floors. The second floor must have been the altar before, and has incredible stained glass windows. There are couches and tables for working or chatting, and coffee and kombucha for sale. They are taking applications for membership, and I highly recommend taking a look before they sell out. I've included some photos below, but now on to the event that I attended!
In 2014, artist Elle Luna published an essay in Medium, The Crossroads of Should and Must that immediately went viral. In the essay, Elle Luna describes the year when she finally listened to her intuition, and ignored convention of what she "should" do. Since then, Elle Luna has created the 100 Day Project, has sold her paintings in art shows, and has completely reinvented her life. Her talk at the Assembly, she encouraged us to question the expectations that we have on ourselves by filling in the blanks to: You should never ___, You should always ___, You know better than to ___, and You should not ___, and then ask these should's where they came from. Elle Luna believes that we all have a calling - the thing that we can't help but to do.
What is your must? For Elle, it was painting, for me, it was performing, if you can't think of what yours is, ask your parents what you couldn’t stop doing when you were young.
