Creative urges

Lately I've been feeling very artsy. As of now, it's a rather vague sentiment. I just feel like there is something inside of me that needs to be expressed. Lately I've gone through so much emotionally and certain circumstances have lead to it all being bottled up. I think this is how it is choosing to manifest itself. Blogging is one way. I love it because I can express those little conversations I have with myself in the middle of class, or things that I think about deeply, but are too random to enter everyday conversation. I've already posted the picture I took a couple days ago. Keenan bit into his apple and that's just how it turned out. It reminded me of a picture in my dentist's office with dozens of pictures of hearts in random places; leaves on trees, a bent train track, a droplet of water. And I just felt like I should capture it. Luckily I had a camera for our history project and even though people thought I was being obsessive, I didn't get the best shot until the end of about a dozen or so. It made me feel really good. I want to take some kind of photography class. I don't really have time this summer but we'll see once my job situation is settled. For now, I'm going to post some pieces that I've written this year that I like.

I wrote this in English. The assignment was to model some of the Native American creation myths we had read.

The Necklace
Before the universe as we know it today, the vast heavens were inhabited by the family of the Sky Gods. Of them, the most powerful and mightiest was the Great Spirit. He highly favored his eldest daughter to whom he gave the most beautiful necklace.. This necklace was comprised of everything that was naturally good and beautiful. It shone as brilliantly as the stars and was as varied as the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea.
But one fateful day, as she removed the necklace for slumber, it slipped through her grasp and plummeted into darkness. She tore manically after it, her greatest possession disappearing into the unending black abyss. Yet the universe was not empty. Several balls, as of clay, dotted the landscape. The necklace collided with the clay ball, scattering it thousands of splendid beads across the Earth.
Frantically, the Goddess pushed aside mounds of earth with her massive fingertips, but the minuscule pieces eluded her grasp save for one bit of amber. In her anguish, her mounting sobs filled the newly created valleys, creating the Great Waters. When her family heard of what had happened, they lamented with her, but she could not be consoled. Finally, her brother suggested she use her powers to create Spirits capable of aiding her quest.
Thus with her small fleck of amber she created Hawk, with sharp eyes and sharp beak to navigate the skies to find and retrieve her gems. But Hawk could not recover all, nor even most of the beads. There were those lost within the Great Water, and those that were stowed in niches and mountains and every possible place. So with each discovery, the Goddess was forced to find a new animal to meet the specific needs of each bead. And from this came Fish, Otter and Turtle of the water and the Mole, Snake, Wolf and Mouse of the land and all the creatures in between until at last she had found them all, but alas! She had turned all but one of the jewels, the very last one, into animals in her quest to retrieve them all! She hung her only remaining memory of the necklace, a yellow diamond around her neck. It continues to hang around her neck every day giving light to the Earth until she removes it at night. Despairing again, she sulked for many, many years until the Great Spirit, with much difficulty, procured for her a new necklace of many great and beautiful things from every corner of the universe. She was overjoyed and spent a great deal of time admiring and flaunting it. Yet one day, as the novelty of her new necklace wore off, she realized that she enjoy creating new beings much more greatly than this vanity. And so she returned to that infamous ball of Earth, now inhabited by teems of the wonderful creatures she had created.
With this new found joy she created a new species comprised of all of the elements of the necklace and set these wonderful and amazing new beings to live in harmony with the rest of the creatures, but she gifted them with the ability to speak and to learn and to use the Earth to live. And thus the Goddess rises and dons her single diamond to oversee the good of the Earth, and rests peacefully at night, Her face glowing happily upon all its inhabitants.