It’s Sunday morning, and Family Weekend is over. I spent two and a half loaded days with my parents cheering for the Duke basketball team, performing my first live band concert since February 2020, and taking pictures. Lots of them. Now I stand by the curb and watch as my parents drive out of my dorm parking lot to head home, my heart hollow. Take … Continue reading college is not for the nosy introvert
I thought high school would last forever. The girl who was swept along by a mob of tall scary teenagers on her first day of freshman year couldn’t comprehend the breadth of four years in that huge unfamiliar place. Yet, the four years zipped by at light speed and she graduated. I graduated. In hindsight, high school felt like a coloring book. The outlined shapes … Continue reading (Young) Adult Reckoning
It was a quaint little village: crowded wooden houses with tiled roofs and narrow dirt roads winding in between. The place was perpetually awash in a shade of dusty gray; infinite layers of dense clouds clogged the sky and encircled the village in a sphere. The village was its own little cloudy microplanet, a dreary snowglobe floating through a mysterious void. One day, the clouds … Continue reading I recorded a dream
They say look to the future and don’t dwell on the past… well sometimes I think it’s good to wallow in memory for a bit. I miss the presence of people. More specifically, making music with people. I miss being in the same room with one hundred other instruments with one hundred other people, all breathing the same air. We’d all breathe in together at … Continue reading Musical Memory
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Just some of the stuff that goes on in my head. Continue reading Thoughts as I Run
Katie Tan 