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Agency


We make choices in order find joy or light; sometimes that means our path will go against the grain, but in those choices we find growth.

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  1. Katelyn TullisJanuary 9, 2020 at 9:24 PM

    Michael,
    I enjoy the simplicity of your picture, yet it clearly shows what agency means to you: making choices even if they go against the norm or the standard. I like that at the end of the scratch in the table, there is even a circle of glare from the camera (which for me, shows that the scratch is moving towards joy or light like you were talking about). I wonder if there is a way that you could have incorporated some of the other elements you talk about in your picture, such as growth being the end result of agency?
    Great work!

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