day 7 {fly}

I would like to begin this post by saying...

the Scottish Festival was incredibly awesome. Awesome costumes, awesome bagpiping, awesome food, awesome date...I had a fabulous time.

I even went out on a limb and got a henna tattoo. Yeah, that's right. I'm a rebel.

{My dashing date wielding a sword.}




So, that being said, here's day seven..."fly".
 

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There are so many things that apply to flying...your soul can fly when you hear a piece of beautiful music, or you can watch birds fly in lovely formation, or maybe someone wishes that they had the gift of flight. In any case, flying is somewhat of a mystery. It stirs something inside of you - doesn't everyone wish they could fly? Just sprout wings and take off, flitting from perch to perch, on top of the world...? Beautiful. I chose to capture colorful ribbons flying in the wind. They weren't completely free--they were attached to something grounded, but they weren't totally bound either. They were free enough to float in the wind, something I think applies to everyone. While the gift of physical flight was not given to humankind, gifts of spiritual flight were given - metaphoric flight. Though we cannot levitate from the ground, our minds can soar to enormous heights if we let them. (She waxes philosophical! Quick, listen up before it disappears!!) We can fly in our talents, our love, our passions...those things help us grow wings. Our families, loved ones, significant others - ideally, they all help us to fly. We can fly when our hearts are full, or when we laugh until tears stream down our faces. We do have the gift of flight. We just have to learn.

day 6 {fluid}

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It rained all day today (and yesterday, and the day before that, and outside, I hear it raining still...) and the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that today's word was "fluid" was all that water puddling up outside my windows. Not very original, but extremely applicable.

Creativity Boot Camp is such an amazing summer project! It gives me a task; a purpose in the otherwise unstructered, lazy days of summer (which actually aren't unstructured or lazy at all...oh no, they're simply FILLED with online classes and ACT tests and such...blech. If only I could be completely lazy [without repercussions] for once...but if my summer was as unstructured as I wish it was, I would probably go insane anyways, so I'm going to stop this parenthetical tangent and continue with this post which was originally about fluidity...)

...now I've lost my place.

Ah, yes.

 Boot camp.

So, as I was saying, boot camp gives me a task to do. It helps me let creativity take hold in a non-chaotic way.

I adore it.

P.S. Leave me a comment! Tell me whatcha think of this whole...creativity thang.

day 5 {grow}

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Daily prompt: "As you listen to the music of your past, begin to think about what your hopes and expectations for life were when you were young and the world was wide open. {If you are young and the world is wide open, get crazy and write your wildest dreams right now.}"

Some of my dreams don't feel very wild--they feel attainable. They feel...close. Almost too close. It's like I'm growing up so fast that I can't even gather my thoughts on the present. I'm done with junior year, I'm racing towards senior year, then graduation, college, moving out, living on my own...it's all right there, in my face, yelling to be noticed, and it's so loud that sometimes I can't hear what's going on at the moment--my future is too distracting.

But then I remember that even though it's creeping up on me quickly, I still have time to cherish here as a seventeen year old. I can't just blow things off and tell myself that I have oodles of time to learn and grow; I don't. I've had seventeen years, and soon, I'll be an adult. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that even though I can't view my future as afar off, I can still enjoy my life at present, while cramming in as much learning and growth as I possibly can before adulthood. But even when I reach adulthood, will I stop learning? Of course not! Growing is a neverending process. You might not grow in physical stature, but spiritual and personal growth never ends. I'll learn forever, and I can't wait.

day 4 {heavy metal}

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Creativity boot camp?

Lovely.

I'm thoroughly enjoying myself.

And today was fantastic. Spendin' time with a few of my friends...laying in the grass, taking pictures of whatever struck my fancy, pretending to be cool, secondhand shops, $2.00 shirts, swimming, snocones...the second week of summer is proving to be just as good as the first.

day 3 {multilayered}

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So, yesterday's word was "Multilayered", and I got the picture taken... it just took a little bit longer getting the picture uploaded...but here it is.

My mom made bread yesterday. The whole house smelled heavenly, and the bread tasted just as good. I layered my slice with sweet butter and peach preserves, and promised myself to learn how to make bread. The prompt from yesterday was this: name some of your biggest creative buzz kills, including a person or two, and disarm them!

Creative buzz kills? How about math? That didn't take much soul-searching. I am so utterly right-brained. I can comprehend logic and reasoning, it's just some of those algebraic expressions that are neither logical nor reasonable that give me trouble. No matter what you say, the letter X will never = seven! The letter X = the start of the word xylophone, or Xerox, or xenophobia...humph. So, buzz kill named mathematics: DISARMED. Creativity for the WIN!

A few asides: Yes, I did in fact take that picture...also, today is technically day four of boot camp, but as I said earlier, there was some trouble in the uploading of this pic...so a day four is coming later today.

trying new things

Have you heard of Creativity Boot Camp? It's kind of a delicious concept. Each day has a word, and a photo to go with it, (or some other medium...lot's of people who blog choose photos, so I'm following the trend.) I'm starting a few days late, so it's really my personal Day 1, but since I'm feeling a little obsessive compulsive about keeping on the same track as everyone else out there in the blogosphere, I'm titling my first as Day 3. Stay tuned.