Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. My name Emma and I will be accompanying you as you venture on. This site, as you so abruptly will find, is a live journal. My thoughts, experiences, and life will supposedly be copied, in form of language, here for you to enjoy. This is real.
In a Mellow Tone happens to be the title of a jazz standard; specifically the first jazz head I ever soloed on. Jazz, for those of you who don't know me, has and always will be a huge part of my life. My dad introduced it to me, I grew up with it, it has followed me my whole life. The theme I'm going for is "embracing fear and pain" because so far I've found that when you do that, you get more out of life. Period.
Currently, I'm attempting to master my childhood fear of needles. I've successfully given blood twice since Easter and plan on continuing. 50 gallon club eventually? That's the goal! I'm also officially part of the bone marrow registry, crossing my fingers that someday I could assist in saving a life. And I don't know, I feel freed.
I'm a firm believer in Christ; he's the reason for everything. He has done things in and with my life I will never fully understand or be thankful enough for. I'm just grasping now what it means to be given grace when that's the very last thing I've ever deserved. Thank God that this life is totally and completely unfair.
I'm a junior at UW-Milwaukee this year majoring in music. My hope is to get a master's in music therapy and move to somewhere that is not Wisconsin :) We're going to see how everything plays out...
Welcome.
