1) tell me about something worth celebrating in regards to your projects. Then tell me something that happen without the last 2 weeks that has made you feel frolicsome.
We finally made a connection to a nursing home and have started to actually get things rolling. Another celebration occured when we got an email response from the Alzheimer's association from a person in a fairly high ranking position. Althought that was slightly marred by the fact that it got stuck in my spam folder and we didn't respond back to that response for 2 weeks. So hopefully she hasn't lost interest in us. Things that made me feel frolicsome: I skied Vail on Saturday with my quasi-brother. I placed second in poetry slam. We played Danse Bacchanale again in symphony rehearsal last night <3. I ate at Chipotle.
2) something about my relationship with poetry...
Poetry is a manifestation of the miscellaneous thoughts that float about in my head. Poetry is like my Pensieve for all of the ideas cluttering my head. When I first heard slam poetry it first seemed like an uncomfortably angsty cult but now it's addicting. I love that I seeks to transcend individual experience and create something larger and more relatable. It's also fairly impermanent, unlike a classic work of literature, in that, for most of the slammers at this school, a poem's lifespan is only a few short months while that emotion is relevant to that person. And there's something awesome in creating something that is relevant for a short while, but loses importance as something else becomes more important.
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