Mar
2
A Reflection by Glo: Guest Artist/Mentor
Filed Under Mentor Blog
So I wait by the door to the entrance of the building for one of the youth that I will be working with for the day in either the Recording Studio or the Writer’s Lab and I am thinking to myself,
Wow, today is another chance to bring the best out of him/her; Today is another opportunity for me to help them discover that they have so much more inside of them even than the poem that they are writing or the rap that they are saying over the mic.
With that train of thought, as I see their smile for the first time that day, I know it won’t be the last because I will use this time to encourage, uplift and esteem this expression of talent.
The reward is priceless but there is also something more on my mind and that is to make sure they know before this project is done, that the same pride, confidence, willingness to improve and the ability to take direction from someone who can make them better can all be applied to life outside the recording studio as well as the art of poetry.
These things that I hope to teach and bring out of them can be applied to the art of life and if I can get them to see even a glimpse of that truth, they will be able to do anything they set their minds to. After all, you can teach just about anyone willing to learn how to rap and write but if our kids became the best rappers and writers but still felt as if that was the only thing they could do well or if they some how fail at succeeding in a particular field that life is over, I would feel as if I failed to accomplish my real goal which is to make them feel good about who they are and the possibilities of ALL they can be. That’s my dream anyway.
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