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.