Monthly Archives: February 2014

Everlasting Winter in the Fields of Hope

The field once blossomed
It’s variety shined with hope
All the spring flowers
Held color close and sweet
Like a mother
Humming softly to her baby
In the quiet of night
The prairie grasses swayed
Now cold, bare, and gray
Where once a flurry
Of beauty glittered with dew
The splashes of color
I dreamt would still be lovely
Only they are lost
In the swirls of pale shimmer
The fantasy of my dreams
Is about as real as mermaids
As I stand in this everlasting winter
Stuck deep in the white
My eyes flutter closed
And I see it—
See it—
See it all—
The field which once blossomed
The variety shines with hope
All the spring flowers
Hold color close and sweet
The lillies, roses, violets, daisies, and cherry blossom
Bursting with light
With love
With hope
for this everlasting winter to end
And for the spring to come.

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Get to the Pointe

Most people have passions for sports, school, art or something like that, but I love to dance.

Not just meaningless bouncing around a room while crazily spinning and flailing your arms, definitely not! Obvioulsy, I mean dancing as in I-have-been-taking-classes-since-I-was-three kind of dance. Like lyrical, ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap, hip hop, technique. I think dance is just the most beautiful and fun thing in the world.

First, dance is free, you can just express yourself, let out your feelings. Show your complex human emotions. When you play sports you are just hardened into this mad, heaving beast trying to achieve some kind of weird goal. In sports your breath comes in ragged, raspy gasps. In dance, you feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. Every step you take, every breath you breathe, is pleasure – pure bliss. It’s a privilege to breathe. Every breath is a gift, and it makes you feel free. I’m just happy when I dance. In dance your goal is to be happy, to have fun, to enjoy every moment of that bliss you have with yourself or that you share with other dancers. Dance makes you free and happy.

Next, dance allows you a few moments to be a show off. Everybody loves feeling proud, when everybody else is watching you twist and twirl like a graceful swan you feel like nobody else outshines you, nobody else can match you. Dance makes you feel proud and peerless.

Lastly, dance has a point when you begin, you start this whole major thing… YOU start something big. Then YOU get to finish it. Everybody claps, cheers, and screams your name. As the curtain falls you realize you just created a majesty. A piece of art. You get to create something. Even if you didn’t choreograph the dance, YOU performed it. YOU should get the credit because you just did all that hard work and added your own personal piece of your soul and passion to it, you dedicated a part of your life to this dance. You get to create something and be dedicated to something. You get to have a passion.

Doesn’t all this make sense? Doesn’t dance just sound perfect and amazing and beautiful? Dance can be your escape from some of the harsh things in reality. Dance can be your real life dream. I just explained to you why it’s mine. I love to dance. It’s the most beautiful, lovely, and fabulous thing in the entire universe.

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Fluff and Ruffle

Little kids sometimes dress really embarrassingly. They could wear a shower cap to school paired with a neon sweater vest and glitter leggings. They could dress up in a fairy costume – wings included and wear that to school. They could end up with a pair of your college brother’s old race-car underwear doubling as a hat! But sometimes they can dress up really cute! An old favorite is the mini tutu.

Tutus are adorable on toddlers! First of all, they are fluffy. I love a good poofy skirt on a baby. The fluffiness can only go so far though. I mean, you can’t go around in something that looks like a ballet costume with a pancake for a skirt! Ruffles and lace are good material for tutus. They accentuate that fluffiness. Tulle and satin create a sweet, innocent presence and if you can pull off that charming cupcake look then tutus are right for you!

Another thing about tutus is that they pair with simpler items so you don’t go over-the-top-80’s-party-crazy. You can wear them with a plain colored top with simple sleeves and no pattern. I used to have this really cute dress that had a tutu style skirt. It was a marble pink with salmon satin ruffles. Soooooo cute for a little kid.

Tutus can be like a skirt, or an accessory. They are versatile and cute. Hey not the hottest style but it works!

Lastly, they come in a bunch of different styles. Like you can get a flatter tutu, or a poofy one. A layered one, or a one ruffle skirt. A dress, skirt, costume so be it. They come in tons of colors and materials too. The best are light pink, slightly poofy and slightly flat, with lace overlay.

I wouldn’t pick a tutu for me, but for a baby or something then why not? Little kids are less fashion obsessed anyway. Plus I can always just pick a tutu for a costume or dress up day thing at school. Tutus are like the most versatile skirts and the most sweet cupcake type! Tutus are ADORABLE!