Bee

                                                           The Bee is not afraid of me,

                                                           I know the butterfly;

                                                           The pretty people in the woods

                                                           Receive me cordially

                                                          The brooks laugh louder when I come,

                                                          The breezes madder play.

                                                          Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists?

                                                          Wherefore, O summer's day?

                   -Emily Dickinson

Accomplishments

This past year has flown by.
So much has happened.
Now Summer is here, and soon another adventure of a year will be starting up again.

This is a list of some of the things that I've done, or learned over this past 'school' year:

This year I...

• ...did my first on-line course ever, and was very successful.
• ...was in a stage fight for the first time, and learned how to use a sword without killing anyone(I may have drawn blood... but everyone survived). 
• ...won NaNoWriMo for the second time. 50,000 words never felt better.
• ...learned that no, isn't always a bad thing.
• ...stared taking piano lessons again with a new teacher
• ... started working out of my Grade 8 RCM books for Piano.
• ...learned that even though everyone else loves something, doesn't mean it's right for you.
• ...registered  for my Grade  8 RCM exam for flute.
• ...started lessons with a new voice teacher in the fall, then switched again in January.
• ...sang with a microphone in a musical, for the first time.
• ...sang with a new choir.
• ...was in my first opera.
• ...helped to design sets for the first time.
• ...started this blog(a maybe a few others).
• ...learned that choices are hard.

Over all, I feel like this was a pretty successful year.

Flowers

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)

 

 

Happy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. 

Palmer Sondreal

The Promise of Summer

The glorious days of summer are soon approaching.
Every time the sun shows its face these days, I can't help but get at least a little bit excited.

The sun is setting later.
The days are getting warmer.
The children are getting dirtier.
The windows are staying open.
The flies are finding their way into our house.
The watermelon is sweeter.

Every thing just seems to be getting better!

childhood

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.  ~Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

a star in my garden

     Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
                                                                        Lord Byron



My 17th Birthday

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll