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Keynote Speech along with Art Exhibit at my Alma Mater
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
This weekend I delivered the Keynote Speech at my college during their Homecoming Alumni/Student Networking event. I was chosen to be this speaker because it coincided with an exhibition of my artwork that was up at the college during this time.
This was a truly amazing experience for me. Not only was I honored to have had paintings of mine selected to be shown at the esteemed college from where I am and have always been so proud to have graduated, but the college also placed so much value on me and the career I have created for myself in that they sought me out to tell about it.
I am always proud of my own artwork. I am as awed by the paintings I have created as others are who get the opportunity to view and experience them. I love what I do as I am doing it. It is fun for me. And, I love what I have created because I think they are beautiful and evocative and deep and creative and intelligent and just so appealing. And now, having gotten such recognition, praise and external affirmation for what I have done and am doing feels just wonderful. I feel as if someone just gave me an exquisitely beautiful, soft, very comfortable, shawl of richly woven fabric and gently draped it over my shoulders. It fits perfectly and I look radiant in it. I am warm, comfortable and secure but also know that I am shining out to the world. I am excited to keep on going and stepping out to take on the world.
So thank you, Trinity College. And thank you to my world who joined me in the whirlwind of success that was associated with this experience.
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