Wild Garden

"One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands out and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun--which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with the millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in someone's eyes."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett(The Secret Garden)                                                



glorious

This summer has been wonderful. I can't believe it's almost over. I've let all of my blogging slide, but not because I was extremely busy.
I have been doing stuff, and things we a bit crazy at times. But I should have been able to find time... but I didn't.
It's summer. When ever I had a free moment, it was just that. Free.
I used my time to see friends who are usually busy during the year. Read more than I have in a while. I was in a musical that was onstage after just 10 days of rehearsal. I've relaxed. Gone to the beach many many times!
Over all it was a pretty amazing 2 months, but they've gone way too fast.

Thorns

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell



Just Try

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.  ~Henry van Dyke

Gluck

I'm playing this orchestral excerpt for my flute exam in August.

Its become one of my all time favourite pieces to play.

I only wish that 'with harp' was a viable option for the exam!

Summer Berries

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most
beautiful words in the English language."
-  Henry James

BEST

New favourite everything:

IceCream

Happiness is two kinds of ice cream.

-Charlie Brown

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