Ready to Let It Go
Abstract
The works included here in my Senior Individualized Project are the
offspring of many hours of careful reflection, extensive yearning, catastrophic
emotional outpour, thorough soul-searching, a deluge of tears, heart-wrenching
disappointment, wild love, abandoned passion, blind faith,
personal growth and a pinch of confidence. My SIP quarter was lavishly
abundant with laughter, tears, learning, and awe as I spent my time as an
environmental education teacher at The Environmental Schools of Maine.
This was a unique opportunity for me to extend my knowledge and passion
for nature into the education arena. It was also a wonderful time to witness
both the metamorphosis of the land and of my feelings and understanding of
the situations that sparked these works. Through an elaborate effort to
cleanse myself of these introspection's, over the course of my stay in Maine
and these subsequent months of revision, this project has been brought to a
climax. I found the time to be both refreshing and disturbing as I was faced
with the process of understanding myself and the situations which I have
live through. I am touch by a love of language that extends into every realm
of my life. Thus, I have tried to explain the instances and emotions that
spurred each piece with as much clarity as possible to be understood by my
readers. The importance of these pieces truly lies within my understanding
of their influence upon who I am today. This is an understanding that grows
with me daily as I learn to embrace their greater purpose in the larger scope of
life.