You know those kinds
of moments that happen in life where you have absolutely nothing to do with
something beautiful that happens before your very eyes. Like you had no
influence in it..no hand in it…it just is and happens?
Tonight my daughter
impressed me to no end. A number of times in the last 2-3 months I have been
thoroughly impressed by the dances she makes up, the videos she creates, the
vlogs, the compositions. She is very very talented and creative when it comes
to this kind of stuff.
Tonight she took
my breathe away. I just kept
watching the vlog over and over and over. It was truly a beautiful piece of
art.
She was the star of
it and it was called “Afterschool Routine” I cannot even describe it as words
could not give it justice..the music…the symbolism, the close up on the shoes,
the schoolbag, the granola bar being eaten in fast forward…the captions , the expressions
on her face…..OMG. It was such a beautiful portrait of the life she is living
at 11.5 yrs old. It affected something profound in me…the way she was alone
afterschool when she came in. Alone yet so happy. It made me both sad and
extremely proud. Her vlog brought out so much emotion in me.
It was at this very
moment that I looked at her and saw her future. In multimedia…in movie
and commercial producing. It all became clear. The funny thing is that this
passion of hers developed completely on her own. Completely. She literally has
hundreds and hundreds of these clips she makes about everyday stuff. Making the
ordinary..extraodinary
Clips of running to
the stop sign at the end of the roads and yelling “chicken”. Versions copying
the show “my strange addicitions”
The girl is creative.
At two schools she is
applying to in a few weeks for high school she will also apply to
intensive 5 yr dance porgrams.Getting her into the actual school could be hit
or miss (probably all ok but soooooo competitive) but the dance programs within
the schools is a guaranteed in for her I am quite sure.
At both schools at
the open house we started asking about qualifications, experience needed, what
the auditions are like etc…and both teachers pretty much looked at her walk across
the room and said “she is in” We were shocked as very limited spots and very
competitive programs.
When I asked one of
the teachers why she said” the way she holds her body, the confidence in her
posture, the confidence in herself shines through. She is a dancer”
I am in awe of this
complicated, wonderful, smart, beautiful, bossy, assertive, creative, hard
headed, sweet (sometimes not so sweet!) little crumpet of ours.
She is a handful this
one in so many ways. Close yet distant. Sweet yet sultry. She is a puzzle a lot
of the time. Today I realized that she is way way ahead of me in many ways. I
will likely spend my life trying to catch up to her creative mind and body. The
dancing-the singing-the creating.The photography, the videotogrpahy. All of it.
I had honestly never realized this before in such a way.
She never ceases to
amaze me. With all her bountiful and colorful sides.
Whenever I feel in
awe it so often seems to be in relation to her.
This girl of
mine…will be just fine.
I am excited to discover
her in the next number of years. Truly I am
