Music has (and always will be) a huge part of my life. As a dancer, music is obviously a very integral piece of my life. Dance is, in essence, using music (and sometimes even creating it!) to express an emotion. Expressing emotion doesn't come easily to me in most areas of life, and that's definitely the aspect of dance that I struggle with,...

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It really hit me this past week that 1. I'm sixteen years old, and 2. I'm a junior in high-school, which means that 3. I'll be graduating next year. Just let that sink in a little bit... I'm. Graduating. Next. Year. When you start your first, official year of high-school, four years seems like such a long time to wait. When you look...

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“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.” -Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner ...

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The camera is an incredible thing... I was left once again pondering the beauty of photography last week after an impromptu photo-shoot with my eight year-old brother. I love these spur of the moment photo-shoots with my siblings, because they're so very raw. They're never posed, they're certainly not perfect, and sometimes they're a little bit messy... But they're real. They're open, honest,...

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