In one of my African History classes at Colorado State we studied the Pokot and Maasai and their coming of age rituals. One includes a drumming dance where the girls transform into young women. It was somewhat ironic, that tonight during Sage's African drumming concert that I experienced my own overwhelming realization that my little girl is growing up. I looked at her, dressed up in a style all her own, a look of maturity and total concentration on her face and this wave of emotion washed over me. The little toddler who used to dance across the family room to a beat all her own, was now finding a new rhythm on a different stage.
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