We will say farewell to our seniors today. For the final installment of TGIF for this school year, I will leave you their parting words.
Karli Robertson "What I’m going to remember when I look back down the line is not what I was doing as much as how I felt about all that was going on. Even looking back now, I can envision my growth, the checkpoints that showed my growth: When I started thinking about specificity, when I started writing about how I felt, when I tricked myself into choreographing by calling it “making movement”, it goes on... These shifts have altered my perspective, given me new tactics and ideas to explore. These breakthroughs are what have empowered me."
Arthur anderson"I feel like an observer in the place where I belong. But that does not mean I am outside of it. As I observe it I exist within it, and I feel all the warmth and love of a place of belonging. I’m not saying I think I’ve given nothing to them. The very reason I belong is because I know I am loved there, and know they know I love them in return. But I only know I have given to them because they have been kind enough to tell me. I still only observe because at times I’ve felt joy, compassion, and empathy for them, but could say nothing and only felt these emotions myself privately. So often I was moved by their words but could not tell them how they moved me. Because belonging alone brought me so much joy, I was fooled into thinking it was enough. Even when the feeling passed I tried to return myself to when I felt it, and tell myself being observer was enough. But I wish to be more to the people I love. I must somehow remedy the state of observer. And I must banish the idea that I am lesser because this is where I am."
Scott gallison"I’ve sorta gotten used to being your own teacher, at the beginning of the year I had no idea what I was doing."
zak kline"This principle of listening for something small, something simple and concrete has helped to guide my song creation process. Listening for something small, the heart of a song, first lets me really get to know it. When I don’t do this I compromise the music’s authenticity and adding elements, I lose all intention or purpose. This year I learned the difference between simplicity and scarcity. Simple doesn’t mean one voice, one instrument.It means one message. For even the most complex song with 200 tracks needs to mean something. And if the writer knows where it starts and grows from, they can follow that with each addition, never losing the simplicity in it’s truth."
There is nothing better than sending a bunch of humans out into the world knowing themselves fully. Thank you seniors for taking the time to know who you are, for understanding and exploring what you are passionate about, and for always doing your best. Thank you for giving me the best job I could ever imagine having.
You got this. Be well always, amyK
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