Highlights from this year's posts, reflections on how the creative arts helped us aspire, confront and build.

“…I realized that in many ways, we CLP alums are on our own Italian balconies singing.”

"The harder step was to let go of competence, the core value that had always helped me feel strong and useful. To be a beginner, I had to let it go."

...like the way you too / have travelled from so far away to be here, once reluctant / and now as solid...

"This poem — 'Me You' — means a lot to me as I continue to create belonging in the multitude of spaces I inhabit in this increasingly interconnected world..."

Reflections on how the creative arts spoke to and through us throughout the year.

“I will make adjustments, not excuses. I will sit in my creativity and blossom. I will sit and type.”

“...a hope swelled in me that we would learn something invaluable, unforgettable, transformational, and universal... that we would become better because of what we had endured in our isolation and stillness.”

“'The Awareness style' of this artistic movement embraces the experience of the colonized, conquered, occupied, subjugated, dominated and their progeny..."

“I always felt like auditions were more than just auditions – what was at stake wasn’t just a spot in a piece, but a piece of social capital..."