I miss ballet. Running and biking just isn't the same.

I think there's something incredibly brave about getting up there on stage and being able to do that with your body--perhaps even more so than reciting a piano piece or burying yourself in a work of art--because everything about those moments is so ephemeral. You practice and you plié and push ( Read more... )

Life flies by so you have to embrace it
Forget the past 'cause you cannot erase it
So live the dream, and learn to chase it
And when you can almost taste it
It's all come alive

Today after art class my dad and I had a very long talk about college. I think he's come to terms with the fact that I want to be an art major. He hopes I'll switch over to architecture though, or interior design. I told him that if he wanted me to do design, he should've let me apply to RISD.

But other than that, we seem to finally have reached an ( Read more... )

''Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.''

- Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist and poet