Cooking. Cooking in general. Cooking late at night. Cooking with friends, listening to their stories, finding out their favorite recipes, trying out their childhood staple foods, laughing at kitchen mishaps, and "taste-testing" the whole way through.
Working on my pieces for the Streetlamp Studios production at the end of July. Gent took me out to a really cool coffee place where I got to indulge in my first cup of coffee in about 4 weeks! The theme for the teens and their showcase is "success and failure." I drew the inspiration for my song from Psalm 42.
The concept: As a teen, I remember feeling like there was so much pressure on me to perform and succeed. As an adult, I now realize that a lot of my pain and anxiety to meet these expectations were unfair in a lot of ways. So, the song is about God coming into all of that angst and speaking truth about freedom and about breaking through the pressure. The song is still in its infants stages, but once it's done, hopefully I"ll be brave enough to post it up here!
Or... you can just come to the show and watch the performance!
Or... you can just come to the show and watch the performance!
Today at art camp, we taught the kids how to make paper airplanes and we had them try out different designs to see how the characteristics of the plane would determine its path of flight. I realized that I love working with kids and making them feel like they can finish something successfully if they keep at it. It's cheesy, I know, but I've just realized how fragile the self-value of a child is and it's really important to make them realize how much potential they actually have.
This is the arts team that I've been leading all summer. I decided to show them one of my favorite dark-humored videos. I'm all about cultivating the silliness. I think I'm realizing how highly I esteem the ability to laugh uncontrollably in your relationships.
Ok, goodnight my bears.
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