H O M E I have always found projects in Ashley's class to hold extreme value and importance. We were asked to create a beautiful piece of final, completed thoughts containing either ethics about the environment or a profound sense of place. We read the works of great minds such as Edward Abbey, Thoreau and so on.
Edward Abbey taught me about the beauty he found between red layers of canyon walls, ones that had history stitched into them. Thoreau taught me about solitude, how he felt Walden to be a safe haven, a place to revive his mental sanity. He made me think about places in the world that kept me safe, that grounded me. Machu Picchu came to mind, holding one of the children I worked in Peru with came to mind. Beautiful waterfalls and spots by the river flashed before my eyes as I thought and contemplated a sense of place. I decided, after an ongoing debate between myself, that the place I feel most at peace is with myself. I used the metaphor that I am a house, and no matter what scenery or situation I am enveloped by, I will always be home. I am in love with the beauty of words, how simple shapes can invoke emotion. I feel like every writing assignment in this class has deeply moved me and improved my writing skills. I could tough on how my essay structure has improved, the way Ashley has taught me to condense ideas and attempt to stay on topic when my mind takes a thousand different routes in one sentence. I think the change that resonates the most, however, is that the sound of my voice grows stronger with every sentence. Like the other assignments, this one shaped my sense of self, gave me more self confidence and pushed me to speak for my belief system. I could write endlessly about how these two pieces deeply affected my personal life, how they were water to my desperately growing flower buds. The environmental aspect of this assignment tore me apart, I spent a large portion of some class periods blinking back tears slipping out of crinkled eyelids.
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May 2016
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