Hey all...sorry I've been quiet for the past couple of days. I've been trying to strike a balance between the new job, working on making this dance stuff happen, and uh, sleeping. Why can't days be 48 hours long? Why, why, why!?!
Today I had my first official dance classes. All mine. I'm my own boss once a week. Today made the whole crappy summer and leaving my job and all of the icky stress that came with that worth it!
Thanks for cheering me on, for your comments, for believing that I could start this when I didn't even know where to begin. Here's a dance just for you guys. I wish I could tell you that it's me dancing, but alas, it is not. Someday soon though...
Today I'm thankful for you, whoever reads this. I'm grateful I quit my old job. What are you thankful for today?
5 comments:
You GO GIRL!!!! How neat to be starting something as exciting and rewarding as this! I danced from the time I was 5 until I was 11. It's so great that you are picking it up again!
Have a terrific week and keep us posted on how it's going for you.
That was a gorgeous dance, thanks for sharing the video. I loved that pause, that breath, right near the end... and so many other bits, but that breath gave the rest of the piece it's pace... retrospectively. Gorgeous!
I can't wait to see you do that... soon.
You know, after art school I gave up art completely for almost 9-10 years. Didn't lift a pencil, didn't go to exhibitions, completely abandoned it. Eventually I realised I couldn't keep denying it and decided to bring it back. It took ALOT of faith. I was pretty bad, out of shape having not done it for so long. I felt punished because of it, and it seemed really hard to get back to a place where I felt like what I was doing was worthy in any way (I still don't feel all that confident). I hid alot, because I felt ashamed of my rustiness (hence the pseudonym and secret blog), but with conviction, kindness (from both others and myself), and holding onto the fact that it's what I'm meant to be doing in some way, slowly, but surely brought me back to a place with art in my life. So much so that I gave up my job, and can now almost feel okay calling myself an artist/illustrator. It still doesn't feel quite deserved, and I still feel silly for turning my back on it. But now I just realise how badly I need it, and will hang onto it. In fact how much I now feel blessed because of it.
Looking back, while it felt like a long time at the time, it was only a year to 18 months before I was doing stuff I felt proud of. And in the grand scheme of things that not long at all. You can only grow from there right?
Sorry for banging on about myself. But I'm feeling what you're going through and wanted you to know you're doing the right thing! And I'm proud of you :D And most of all you should be proud of yourself!
What you are doing is giving yourself the greatest gift ever; becoming who you were always intended to be.
.xx.
Cool, I love dancing! Nice video! :D
How exciting and good luck in your new job!!
I teach classes too and I really enjoy being my own boss:)
I tried to check out your etsy shop but didn't see a link on your blog.
Grateful for youth, and hope, and sweetness amid the muck. Grateful for art and love and a gracious God who gives us such lovely talents to share and inspire each other with. Grateful for moxie and chutzpah and mothers who encourage and praise, and for the inner core that drives our desires. Grateful the internet so that I can see all these things today in you!
I am SO excited. I could not be more excited if you were my own. You dance woman! The fitness will come back, the talent has remained and will grow the more you push it.
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