Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Monday, September 7, 2009

This is It

I started writing this blog near the end of my grade 10 year. Wow that seems so long ago already. Summer has a way of aging people... or at least making time stretch out into infinity.
I've had a lot of trouble writing this post. I feel like I have a responsibility to my few but wonderful readers to finish up my summer reflecting and being profound all packed into one superamazing end of summer post. Maybe I just put too much pressure on myself.
I wrote a list of goals for my summer and I was happy with it. In fact up until I started writing..I had every intention of copying and pasting that list into a new post and simply checking off what I had accomplished.
But then I realized.
Life doesn't have a report card.
Life is not about lists that we hold onto and then look back on with regret missing the good stuff. In the end life and accomplishments are measured by "Done" lists not "To Do" lists.
What is on these lists doesn't matter because with a little bit of effort you can find growth and beauty and something worthwhile in it all.
This is the most important lesson of the summer.
So without further ado
MY DONE LIST

Learned how to see and capture beauty with a film camera.
Sometimes updated my blog.
Wrote poetry and short stores.
Bought and wore beautiful clothing found a way to love my swimsuited body
Learned to rollerblade
Rollerbladed and Yoga'd regulary.
Experimented with new foods.
Saw friends
Said goodbye
Grew Up
Was brave
Accepted change and created some of my own
Worked on precious few guitar skills.
Even further expanded my musical spectrum.
Discovered.


















This summer was was hard at times easy at others.
Always unpredictable, Always routine,Always new, Always old, Always sad, Always happy,Always hello's, Always goodbye's.
Always Learning.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Today I didn't learn much. I learned never to trust ANYONE who tells you where your exam is not the commissionaire or your classmates NOBODY just go into the halls and check the postings saves you a lot of strife. I also learned that writing lists is a great way to make yourself feel like you've accomplished something. Cause if by the end of the year you can say that you accomplished one thing on your list things are good.










Therefore....












THIS SUMMER




1. Attend/Help organize a rally because Mc Carthy's big uniform supplier uses child labour? Not cool.



2.Learn To Sew- I need to stop going into stores and saying "Oh god I could make that!" it bothers salespeople


3.Learn to Cook-I sound so domestic!



4.Practice my flute (My guriella war tactics won out evil music teacher retired! )



5. Get a good grasp on the guitar


6. Have amazing bonfire making starlight party at petro park
7.Visit the art gallery in the city and locally regularly.
8. Use the car as little as possible


9.Teach everyone the beauty of Kerr street. Seriously it's a haven just waiting to be discovered.

10.Return my library books on time.




11. Keep being a "Harold" ala Harold and Maude and visiting the cemeteries with Meagan. (One Day write a post explaining this)









12. WriteWriteWrite



13.Walk through the lakeside trails downtown till we reach a secluded park blasting the Beatles. Then have a picnic.



14.Eat lots of Gelato



15. Have "Film fests"



16. Get mum's old SLR and take lots and lots of pictures.



17. Be Brave



18.Take Chances



19.Forget everything I learned in school except for drama and history those are important things



20. See 500 days of Summer and get my hair cut like the girl in 500 days of summer












21.Make those tshirts for all my friends "Modest as an Effin Peacock" "Plain as an Effin Zebra" "Happy as an Effin Thundercloud" "Straight as an Effin Curly Straw" etc. etc.


22. Go to lots and lots of varied concerts


24. Have more choir kid reunion specials and interesting artsy kid hangouts which result in interesting and blurry pictures that make me look like a ghost.