Certainly when I graduated from University, my first plan of action wasn't to be a calligrapher.  I had but the most cursory knowledge of it, aside from a kit I had gotten for Christmas many years ago.  As an avid historian (my study of choice), I had run into a fair number of manuscripts to admire, but the thought of doing anything remotely like that simply didn't register as an option.  

Yet here I am, with my own studio stocked with a plethora of ink, a mountain of nibs, and (almost) more paper than books in my library.

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