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Be Brave

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Landen is on the Dana’s School of Dance drill team this year.  She goes to classes 3 nights a week (totally about 6 hours).  She is committed and loves it.  This past Saturday was their first competition as a team.  She was nervous, anxious and excited.  But mostly she was brave, bold and confident.  She danced beautifully and I am so proud of her!  I am proud of her attitude, her honesty, her determination and her shear commitment to this group and this process.  She said she loved performing (especially the applause) but not the awards ceremony.  Of course, I loved that statement even more.

I am thankful we have a found a dance studio that fits her personality.  It is serious but not too serious.  And it picks age appropriate songs, dance moves and outfits.

Next year she wants to do a solo.  I love watching her spread her wings.  Fly, baby, fly!

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
― Martha Graham

Landen is 11

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Landen Grace Murry is kind, thoughtful, intuitive, observant, inquisitive, creative, funny, beautiful, loyal, loving and caring.  She loves to cook, dance, be with friends and hold babies.  And she always loves to be in charge.  I think she was born aware, inter-dependent and with an old soul.  I am proud and thankful to be her mother.  And I am proud of her.

For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever. – Bryan Andreas

Growing Up & Being Brave

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“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.” –Ta-Nehisi Coates

Landen had a big weekend.  She started Cotillion and had a 5 hour dress rehearsal for Drill Team.  Lots of hair, makeup, undergarments, dresses, shoes and accessories!  And I got to be with her every step of the way.  I am so thankful!  And so proud of the young lady she is becoming.  She is kind, thoughtful, curious, observant, creative, meticulous and sensitive. Secure yet insecure.  Shy yet bold.  Scared yet brave.  Independent yet dependent.  Serious and silly.

 

“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.” -David Almond