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[butchtuffington]

Summertime construction in Seattle, near #cornishcollegeofthearts. . . . . . #nofilter #gentrification #seattle #skyscraper #cityscape #towers #vanishingpoint #construction #kingcounty #oldhotel #travel #daytrip #evening #igers_seattle #blue #summertime #architecture (at Seattle, Washington)

[lorenahoward-blog]

Quite a handsome split fountain lock-up by Foundations students at the Typeshop today @ Cornish #cornishcollegeofthearts https://www.instagram.com/p/B4gDAhdBkQ-/?igshid=1074wmte5l9rs

[llama64]

After a whole month at Summer@Cornish I made these little mini comics called Crazy Creatures in a Wonderful World! It was a lot of fun to make! #comics #comic #cornishcollegeofthearts #traditionaldrawing #traditionalcomics #creatures #handmade #handmadecomics #ink #inkdrawing #wonderful #zine #artwork #craftwork #minis #black https://www.instagram.com/p/B0me-vHHP_L/?igshid=vw49ptpwtspj

[lorenahoward-blog]

Trails of the work left by Jayde Hoover #cornishcollegeofthearts https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw4-wuTBp_H/?igshid=1w6m5r4308ktv

[llama64]

Great view from Cornish College of the Arts (I'm sorry I have not been posting, Senior year has been busy 😖) #studentadmittedday #cornishcollegeofthearts #cornishbound https://www.instagram.com/p/BwNb6JPnWpS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=duewy9xk6tv0

[bandjoestevens]

Two places in Seattle that have fundamentally shaped my music - I’m grateful for where this unconventional path has led #cornishcollegeofthearts #emptyseastudios (at Seattle, Washington)

[thedaveandkimmershow]

The News from Cornish College of the Arts these days has taken an interesting turn.

As parents, we’ve become adept at predicting the ebbs and flows of Linzy’s life. And if not predicting, then let’s just say we have expectations within which events happening in her life are in the ballpark.

Don’t get me wrong. All along the way, we have been delighted. She’s surprised us with her leaps in talent and ability every year.

These delights and surprises, however, are within the realm of what we as parents hope for. Our wildest dreams, if you will. But as she continues the College Episodes of The Linzy Show, Out of Left Field has become a new category for us to consider.

Out of the Blue.

Completely Unexpected.

Like when she walked into Dolce Bleu in downtown Seattle a couple months ago, adored the dresses and ball gown displays, then walked up to ask if they had any jobs available... when they didn’t even have any job openings posted.

Yeah.

Didn’t see that coming. Her last job was housecleaning in the Edmonds area.

Or the other morning when she was at Joe Bar for coffee... and Macklemore was in there, too. She walked up—”sorry to bother you, but”—and, confirming he was indeed Macklemore, introduced herself as a singer/songwriter from Cornish and asked if she could snap a photo with him.

She told me later how “stupid nervous” she was the whole time.

But she did it.

Then on the phone yesterday she was telling me about a conversation she had with the head of the Cornish music department. You see, he’d been there at the Poncho Theater in Kerry Hall where Linzy performed her new song “If I Could Go Back”.

Turns out, he likes the song so much that after school lets out for winter break middle of this month he wants her to go into Kerry Hall Recording Studio to make a recording of the song for Cornish to post on its website.

Yeah.

Did not see that coming.

So stay tuned.

No idea what’s gonna happen next...

[thedaveandkimmershow]

Empty-nesting these days feels a little like when I’d go on shoots during the time before Linzy started Kindergarten.

Obviously, if I was gone for a week, two weeks, I didn’t see her for that amount of time. Oh, I’d hear about her from Kimmer through email and I’d write to her (stories, mostly) the same way back.

And, each time, when I returned home from my travels, I was struck by how much Linzy had grown in the time I was away. I also realized that when I was with her every day... I never saw her growing up, never saw the process in action. 

Not really.

It was only in recognizing the difference in her from just being apart that I was able to go 

“Oh, wow. She’s taller.”

It is, in fact, that ability to directly compare point A to point G that allowed me to “see” that Linzy had grown in the intervening time.

Had I been there to experience points B, C, D, E, and F... I wouldn’t have recognized how far away G really was. Growing up is so incremental... you don’t see it from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day.

So yeah.

Empty-nesting is a bit like that. Yet another thing they don’t tell you in that book “What To Expect When You’re Expecting.

Still, we’re not with Linzy every day. We see her once a week, maybe, and, since she moved into the dorms at Cornish College of the Arts at the end of August, most of our communication’s done at a distance. Emails. Texts. In-boxes. Snapchat. But, like the emails back and forth while I was in Europe, those things don’t tell us anything about growing up.

They just don’t.

We were with Linzy and her friend, Eli, who refer to their friendship as being “like a really small gang”. We were with them last night at Whole Foods on Westlake for chai tea lattes and hot chocolates. And there it was...

Point G.

When last we visited The Linzy Show, she was at point A. I swear she was.

It was in the way she talked about her life, her plans. In the way she navigated a discussion on some pretty tricky stuff. What she shared about exploring opportunities and experiences at Cornish. Spreading her wings a little. Growing.

Then she read us a short story she’d turned in to class that day. Read it to us off her phone while we listened with the rapt attention one pays to the night’s bedtime story. And we. were. floored.

Like I said.. point G.

Our daughter is not where we left her. 

Yeah.

This is gettin’ good.