Manda Grace Lee

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“Come Play in the Clouds”

Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!!!

“I’ve had enough, this is my prayer… that I’ll die livin’ just as free as my hair!”

- Lady Gaga

I swim for brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I’m not giving in
I swim

- Jack’s Mannequin, (Swim)

Stroll Down Hope St. - “Thanks FIDM”

Time has gone be SO fast. I cannot believe that in less than two months my time at FIDM will be over.

I’m so thankful for the chance to have gone to school with the FIDM experience in downtown LA. I feel like I found a part of me here that I didn’t know existed before. The walk along Hope St. led me to find a home in the library, make the beautiful books and people my new friends, watch hours of old movies trying to gain the style and gumption of the leading ladies, and be inspired and touched by the teachers’ experience and eagerness to share. It has been exhilarating to be in a classroom full of peers with big ideas and big dreams to match and I can’t wait to see what everyone will go on to accomplish.

It is true that “all good things come to an end” but I’m truly thankful and feel blessed for having the chance to experience it all and to have met the people that I have.

So for all the June grads: Congratulations, enjoy the last weeks here, and good luck on everything that comes next!

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten.

- Natasha Bedingfield

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

• Dalai Lama