“Something special is going to happen,” Brady said. “I feel like we are on the verge of it now.”
“Yea?” I said, “Doesn’t everyone feel that way?”
“I don’t think so. Most people live day to day. I’ve been in friendships and relationships where the people around me didn’t want what I want.”
“What is that?”
He shook his head. “I have no idea. That’s a pretty broad question-”
“I know.”
“-but I know I don’t want a life where I’m unhappy. I don’t want to wake in the morning and wish I was somewhere else,” he said. He was stern. “And I’m willing to risk comfort for that joy.”
A few months later, Brady was hired to design the dinner menu at Oddfellow’s in the Bishop Arts district of Dallas – the kind of work he dreamed about. I am fortunate to have him as a friend, and as a testimony that hard work and discipline, coupled with patience and a little good luck, can get you anywhere.
Here are a few photos of Brady from a last minute trip to New Orleans:
