haha.. yup. It's been a couple months. I've been so busy.

Which I know is a good thing, but that means that I leave other things to the way side.

Oh well though, so updates..

Recital season is finally over, which is nice... sadly it means that I am leaving another studio this year, but the silver lining is that I am still hustling and pushing forward into new ventures.

I just had my performance with Evergreen City Ballet which went splendidly. Bigger is that I just performed my first solo in years, in such a humbling experience. I had the chance to work with Constanze Villines, a wonderful choreographer and name in the Seattle dance scene, on an amazing solo called "Divisible by 2" for Seattle International Dance Festival. This is an amazing festival that has acts, local and international, grace the stages of Seattle for 2 1/2 weeks. I was lucky enough to be a part of that. So blessed and humbled and looking forward to seeing where this might take me in the future.

I had someone say that "I was a force in the dance world! I'm excited to see where your career takes you!"... and I forget sometimes that really.. even though I've been dancing for 25 years, teaching for almost 15 and dancing professionally for almost that long, that my career really is still in it's infancy. Which, I am so thankful for, and again, it's very humbling.

The last couple weeks have been a lot of realization and introspection.

One of the exciting, yet, scary things that has come out of this is a new project. It's only come to fruition in the last couple days, I had a very good friend just mention a new direction I should try and it really got me thinking... I have one friend who I mentioned it to and she is now on board to help me flesh things out.

I've had unique life events that I don't normally speak about. Some of them I'm open about, others I just don't think to mention because I don't think twice about them. One being that I'm adopted, you take 30 seconds to see me next to the rest of my family and you'll get it, but it's one of the things I don't think twice about so when someone actually asks me it takes me a second.

My senior solo when I graduated from my studio was by "When Love Takes You In" by Steven Curtis Chapman, a song about adoption and his experiences with adopting kids into his family. It is an absolutely gorgeous song and I recommend that you listen to it (https://youtu.be/beZ5hF-qZDY). So I want to start to tap into that...

The scarier of things that I never really talk about and want to be a part of this autobiographical project is my almost dying twice. Which is something I don't normally talk about... I was a very sick kid growing up and had some tough times with my health (all better now, usually). So those experiences, as scary and as personal as those are, I want to tap into also.

It's going to be a hard project and I have no clue where it might take me, but I'm excited. I'm excited to have something that will be personal and that will hopefully tell my story in a way people can think and relate...

This has turned into an absurdly long post, if you stuck it out this far, good on you. :)