Valerie Day

@valerieday.bsky.social

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She/her. Musician, educator, creative explorer living in Bellingham, WA. On a mission to help singers create a life in music. https://livingavocallife.com Moonlights at https://www.nushoozmusic.com

Art As Resistance graphic with photos (from left to right) of Kerstin, Valerie, and Eli.
Photo of an old hotel sign that reads room with a bath with an arrow pointing to a window.
An illustration of an Azure Winged Magpie perched on a branch about to take flight. The text on the image says: The present is a feather on loan from the wings of time, that only attention makes beautiful, and only kindness valuable.
Heron on a log staring out at the bay with snow-capped mountains in the background.
A black and white photo of a lone figure on a mountain from far away.
A purple sky sunset on the Salish Sea with the silhouette of a lighthouse in the foreground.
A Kwan Yin statue in a garden with big, fluffy, slow motion snowflakes falling in the foreground.
"You Know You’re Old… WHEN YOU EMAIL A FRIEND about a change in your blood pressure because you know she will be just as interested as you are. When you check your watch to see how long you have to lie in bed until morning. When nothing embarrasses you. When you understand you are breakable by breaking. When you forget what you’ve forgotten. When at your yearly checkup they ask you to count backward by sevens. One hundred, ninety-three, eighty-six. When you no longer drop everything to answer the phone just because it rings. When you don’t wonder what you’re missing. When you can’t remember the last time you felt guilty. When you stop trying to fix people. When you find the moment roomy enough to live in. When you relish your own company. When you see a young woman with her whole life in front of her, and your first thought is: Thank God that isn’t me. Seventy-nine, seventy-two, sixty-five, fifty-eight. But you wish her well." (Abigail Thomas, Still Life at Eighty)
Sunset over the Salish sea.
Coffee in a dark blue cup with a heart in the foam.