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Hello world--it's Kodi here, yet again. Continually documenting this decade-I still believe that it is the biggest decade in anyone's life. There is so much growth, change, and so many realizations. It's insane for me reading back through old posts and seeing how different I was just three years ago. It makes me excited to see how many new adventures the coming years will bring. I've recently decided to invest in my career and buy myself a badass camera. Nowadays more often than not auditions come in through the form of self-taping. Having a high quality camera will not only allow me to up my self tape game but also give me the freedom to film short scenes for showreels and short films. Which is super cool and I'm beyond excited to start doing some acting with it. So, I now have this camera--whom I have named Lucy--and I am beginning to get to know the ins and outs of making something look great. Over the past week I have just felt this little burst of joy every...

Hello World It's Kodi here. I just wanted to share on here---admittedly over a year late now--the best day of my life. As you may or may not know--I believe the universe is on our side, and is always sending us signs if we only know where to look. So during September of 2016 when a company called Project Mermaids  started popping up on my various social media accounts, I had a look. The second their website opened, the 7 year old girl who wanted to be a mermaid when she grew up (and to be fair the 22 year old with the same dream) nearly fainted. It actually looked like the most magical experience in the entire world. But then I saw the price, and the adult part of me went there is no way to justify spending that much on being a mermaid for a day. So I tried to forget about it, but as the universe does I started seeing their advertisements absolutely everywhere. So I made a list of pros and cons for doing it and I brought that to the two most important people in my life--my mom ...

Hello world, it's Kodi here. I've had some thoughts recently that have inspired a slightly new mindset in life. I now try to live my life by connecting to the moon cycles and letting my life go through phases as so many things on this earth do. I thought I would just share some of these musings here--for future me looking back or anyone else who may want to listen. Life on this earth is cyclical by nature. The seasons come and go, they bring new life and death. Women experience their monthly cycle. The day brings sun and the night brings starlight. The tide cycles in and out with the phases of the moon. The moon cycles through filling the night sky with light and leaving us in darkness. It is how our world works. So why is it when we humans experience a period of darkness we think it will never pass. We wallow and sink even further not seeing the signs from the earth around us that darkness never lasts forever. It is in the sun, the moon, the flowers around us and in the ai...

Hello world, it's Kodi here finally, after a far too long hiatus from writing. So here I am about a week away from turning 23 which means I am now almost three years into this unbelievably awesome ten year adventure. And being completely honest--I'm feeling incredible. I was right to think that this decade would be full of massive changes and I am so grateful for each and every one of them. This morning I looked back on my original Ten Year Goals that I set for myself when I turned 20 and I'm feeling pretty great about what I have achieved in the first three years. #2 Having a happy, zen, cozy home in a town or city that invigorates me. Most likely near the ocean.         -Now I'm counting this one as  achieved  for my current age. Since I'm a  student  who has no idea where she'll be living next year the house I currently am in I am renting, but I can proudly say that I have made it a very happy, cozy, zen, relaxed, safe space where I can r...

Hello world, Kodi here. So I've made the decision to go back through all of the blog posts that have just been sitting as drafts for far too long. I figure, they were things I wanted to say at some point but never felt that they were ready. But I realized today that I would rather share a raw, unedited version of myself than never feel I'm good enough to share even a part of me. So here it goes...the mission to finally complete and post all of the writing that has been sitting, hidden on here for however long. This one is kind of inspired by the last published post on here ( Let the Bad Moments Go ). Although this time I'm far more aware of how important presence is in emotional health. There's a Buddhist belief of Impermanence that goes "Everything changes, nothing lasts forever." So let's say for a moment that we go along with this belief--then there is zero point in doing anything that is not experiencing the moment that you are in to the fullest ...

Hello world, it's Kodi here, and something really interesting happened to me today. I'm not totally sure what prompted it--it could have been any number of things, but today was the day that I realized both that 1). I have become and adult and 2). I need to start acting like an adult. It is a realization that is both terrifying and exhilarating. Earlier today I was off to sign the lease for the first ever apartment that I would live in and as these things tend to go, it didn't all go exactly as I had hoped and some new information was brought to light that messed up some of my plans for the summer. All I really wanted in that moment was for an adult to swoop in, save the day, and make everything better. Which was when I realized that no knight in shining armor was coming to pull me up onto their horse. Almost immediately after that I realized I am an adult, I'm the one who has to figure this out. But the upside to that is, I have the ability to sort it out. If I stop...

Hello world, it's Kodi here to tell you about something that has been on my mind almost constantly since it was brought up in one of my classes. I've always found the profession of acting fascinating, and there are so many different theories and methods that are believed to lead to the best acting. But something that is underlying in almost all of them is being incredibly grounded in who the actor is as a person before they begin to embody the personality of a character. An actor's job, in the most simple definition, is to bring truth to a lie. And the only way that an actor can acheive that successfully is to use truths from their own life to find the honest and raw moments of truthful emotion within the tale being told. One of my professors has been reminding us continually from day one that the only way to truly succeed in this career is to have complete honesty with yourself. Now, this is much much harder said than done, as our society and it's rules have influenc...

Hello world, it's Kodi here looking back on this first year of my current decade in life. I started this blog at the age of 20 to record all of the insane changes in my life over the next ten years. If each year includes as much change as this year has had then I am certainly in for a whirlwind of madness. Thinking back to January of this year, I was living in New Orleans in the process of applying to drama school and could not feel more lost and confused about adulthood and life. My life could not be more different right now. Now I am at drama school in England and feel incredibly solid in my path. And every moment in between those two snapshots of this year has been insane and wonderful. I have had my first paid stage acting job, lived in New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Surrey, traveled to incredibly stunning places in Asia, and completely uprooted my life.  I've made incredible friends and found a new family in my new home an ocean away and could not feel more lucky to be ...

Hello World! It's Kodi here and if you've been following me on Twitter or Instagram then you will know that I have been out of the country for a week to learn about all of the exciting new changes coming in the next few years of my life. For those of you that are not as social media inclined, this is the update on the exciting and wonderful things happening at this moment in my life. If you have read my Where I'm At post then you will know that I have spent this year applying to and auditioning for drama schools in the U.K. And a few weeks ago I was in New York with my dad on my way to do my last few first round auditions in London and something very unexpected happened. I had been emailing with a woman in the admissions department of a school that I had auditioned for in January. Originally we were told that we would know the outcome of our audition within two weeks of the audition. At this point it had been about two months and I had heard nothing. So ...

Hello Internet! It's Kodi here and today I thought I would write a post about my starting point for the ten-year adventure. Technically speaking, where I'm at right now is on my couch, with my dog, watching a DVD of Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty. But that's not the point of this post. The point of this post is to document my starting point so that when I look back ten years from now I will be able to recall exactly how I felt before this next decade of my life. I am currently half way through my sophomore year of college and am taking this semester off as a leave of absence in order to audition for drama schools abroad. So, in a way my adventure is already well underway as most of my auditions are already over. I am now sending in some DVD auditions and sitting here waiting to see where the universe will put me. I decided to make the choice to change directions as far as my training as an actor goes because of the time I spent this past summer doing a classical a...

Hello World! It's Kodi here. As I mentioned in my last post, the main idea behind this blog is to set general goals for the next ten years of my life and then follow along to see which ones the universe deems right for my life. So, without further ado: In ten years time I see myself... 1. Supporting myself through doing a job that is energizing and inspiring to me. Hopefully acting onstage. 2. Having a happy, zen, cozy home in a town or city that invigorates me. Most likely near the ocean. 3. Keeping only positive and joyful relationships in my life. Friends that push and empower me to be the best version of myself. 4. Having a well-trained dog. Either a Pug, Husky, or Samoyed. 5. Being the happiest, healthiest, most balanced version of myself. 6. Having created something I am incredibly proud of, whether that is a production, theater company, this blog, or something else entirely. 7. Trained at an acting conservatory. Hopefully abroad somewhere. 8.Working for/with Disn...

Hello Internet! It's Kodi here and welcome to my blog. I am 20 years old and am passionate about Disney, Shakespeare, Pugs, and Butterflies (among other things). I am currently on a gap semester and am in a big turning point in my life. I have been toying with the idea of starting a blog or a YouTube channel to document this transition for a while now but only recently had the burst of inspiration that I needed to do it.  The inspiration came from a video that the YouTuber Alfie Deyes posted called 10 Years Time . In the video he asks where we think will will be in ten years time. In 10 years time I will be 30, which is rather a daunting thought if you ask me. I personally feel that the 20s is really the time that a person finds themselves and starts to become a real adult. But then again, what do I know? I haven't actually been through them yet. But, that's why this blog is here. I want to document what changes and adventures come along in my life over the next ten y...