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[emmarie]

My mom treats our dog like her son. only worse. sometimes i picture him back in roman times, lying on his back in a white, gold trimed robe, and my mom fanning him and feeding him grapes. but im probably just jealous. maybe ill make a visual for that.

and now heres the part where i get upset that i cant express myself. Ive been asking myself lately

Comments

[lunapiertech]

Hey, I like what you've written here. The faculty just reworked the curriculum at the art school I work at, giving students a bit of everything the first couple years, then letting them specialize afterward. Why? So no matter what they decide to specialize in, they can include other techniques in their works if they want to. There's a method to this madness some of the students don't understand. Art should bring an emotional response. To get there, correct technique has to be applied. Of course, this also goes for music. Musicians practice huge amounts of hours to get the emotional response ... you falling in love with it. So, if you don't get it right the first time, you just keep at it, not only in creating art but in describing how music makes you feel and why. It's all incredibly similar, which is why your entire post here hits a single bulls-eye.

[rotcmom]

Em, I have observed your speaking lately, and I think you do a good job. You express yourself very well. I think you are better at the expressing in words, but I think if you make a committment to yourself to speak more, it will come with time. I have been praying for you for a long time, and you have become a very beautiful young lady. I am very happy to know you. As with your art, I just talked with Dorothy, and she feels kind of the same as you do. Art is an emotional thing. And if you can't get it quite right, that is where the practice comes in. (Hence the reason musicians are always playing their instrument) I know an artist that makes his living at it, and he will paint the same painting over and over, until he gets it the way he likes it. I personally like all of his (mistakes) but he doesn't. So keep on sharing with people, and if you have to do it at times by writing, then do that. But I do enjoy hearing from your voice, what if going on in your life. Love you and am praying for you.

[drrocketanski]

Music, art, life - if you can ever capture these with words, then you've made them something else (less?). Maybe the problem isn't that you can't speak well, but that you see more than what many see...(that sounds too complimentary to be coming from me...hmmm...)...i mean, you're dumb.

You have much more fear than necessary.

And many of us lose interest/understanding more slowly than you might think. You give up on us too fast. i think the word i hear most from you is "nevermind". We do.

"Communication, such an aggravation"--some song i heard

[panheadgirl]

Em, you almost always make sense to me. I think you are a lot better at communicating than you think you are, and Travis is right about the "nevermind" thing, cause you say that all the time! Besides, I think sometimes when you aren't getting through to me, you blame it on your own inability to explain, but usually it has more to do with my inability to understand (read: stupidity? lol! it's true, though!) I don't think you should worry about it anymore. Communication is talking and listening; no one speaks perfectly and no one listens perfectly, so if it doesn't work perfectly, you can't blame it only on the one speaking or the one listening. I think everyone has issues with it, so just do what you can and stop worrying or you will always be frustrated. love you --g