tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20770887909719372602024-02-08T02:13:45.818-08:00Forte Espressivodahhlaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05714378420586582370noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2077088790971937260.post-71487503144815389752012-06-30T21:28:00.000-07:002012-06-30T21:36:22.682-07:00...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">'Tis the last day of June/the first day of July. My body has been spoiled with 9 hours of sleep every night and suffers when I receive any less than such an amount. Today was no exception, most especially with work training today. Eight and a half long hours of airbrush flower tattoos (no, they are not real tattoos, miss), sweaty backs (curse you, oh black cement), irritated mothers ("Where's the beer at?!?") , and rubber dummies (all hail Bonquiqui). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Tired. Even the scrumptious goodness of a dinner I had of fried tilapia and chopped celery and zucchini, accompanied with steaming brown rice topped with roasted seaweed strips and a hint of soy sauce did not seem to wake me up a bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A puddle of reflection is what I have been slowly sinking myself in (please tell me I am not the only one who has a 5 second mental video clip of Disney's <i>Mulan</i> in my head, most especially the bit where Makeup Mulan glances at her reflection in the river...I think). It has come to my attention that I have been draining myself out, wringing the very ends of who I am until there was no more left of me to pour. This past year was a challenge, a test, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt that I have passed with flying, vibrant colors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am grateful that this summer is a resting period for me, but I have come to the point where rest...well, sort of, equals occasional laziness. As much as I love to keep my inner motor running, I realize I need to devote the time I have it going to aspects of who I am that I do not get to touch upon during the school year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This is a rejuvenating time for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It is a time for me to be a student yet again but not in the typical academic sense. It is a time for me to be creative again but not in the typical oh-let-me-just-mimic-all-these-DIY's-I-discovered-online-and-take-the-full-credit-for-it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I want to go from being intrigued to being informed, to go from curious from its enticement to being captured by its beauty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Because beauty is the real essence of creativity and well, sometimes I feel like there are hundreds and thousands of hidden dimensions and angles of beauty that I have not encountered just yet. </span></div>
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