“Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young. Sometimes very young children can look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It’s because neither are[…]
Tag: experience
Ted Talk: Heir to a Garden Heart
part 1: (child) When I was a child, my favorite flowers were tulipa tardas, these tiny pale yellow star-shaped blossoms. In the spring, they are the first to bloom and the first to die,[…]
The Art of Flying
When I was little, I used to dream about flying. These dreams were the same, every single time. I would stand on the roof of my bedroom, hands outstretched and trying to catch the gleaming[…]
The Heavens, The Earth and The Boy In Between
Experience is simultaneously the builder and the breaker of an individual’s soul; it tints the lens with which we view our pasts, and cautions us on the tools we use to construct our futures. Our[…]
Protector – Tormentor
REMEMBER THE MOON SURVIVES by Barbara Kingsolver Remember the moon survives, draws herself out crescent-thin, a curved woman. Untouchable, she bends around the shadow that pushes himself against her, and she waits. Remember how[…]
Painting By Night
What do these texts suggest about an individual’s capacity for self-sacrifice in the face of compelling circumstances? (Polished Personal) Creative Response to “Dancer” with connections based on the imagery of darkness and light to represent[…]
Quixotry As it Dies
Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the significance of idealism and truth in an individual’s life. (Polished Critical) Aspiring to our ideals is instinctual. Idealism – the forming[…]
A Monster’s Loneliness, a Girl’s Loneliness
As cheesy as this is about to sound, I think Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was gifted to me by the universe. I first read Frankenstein in July, and for me, this past summer was an incredibly[…]
Evancescence
I am tired. In the spaces between my heartbeats I find moments of silence anchored by shadows to the breath of every dawn, but this is before the daytime expels sunrise’s misty serenity and thrusts[…]
This I Believe: A Piece of a Puzzle
Experiences are the stones beneath a stream; lines of a sketch; pieces of a puzzle; the threads of identity. That is what I believe in.