this is a record of my experiences and my search to be real
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Yearbook Staff End of the Year Party
This has been my third year being the yearbook advisor, a job that I truly love. I gave members suckers that said, "Thanks for making 2005-2006 yearbook a sweet success!"
Why I write:
language emerging truthfully as an intimate friend, overcoming obstacles, exposing flaws, accepting and practicing journaling as a gift, reflecting and gaining understanding from every experience, regardless of the outcome, generally finding a particular purpose in rambling; formulating and uttering an in-cohesive stream of consciousness, leaning indiscriminately towards acceptance and rejection; interrelating the need to be translated, writing both carefully and most carelessly, attempting to become in plain sight, underneath aluminum sky.
Quotes that inspire me to share my narrative:
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
-August Wilson
Why do any art if you’re not going to bring out of yourself the thing that is most vulnerable and most precious, that has to be said? Why do something unless you’re really trying to get at what it’s really about?
-Marc Kelly Smith, New York Times, June 3, 2009
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