Energy and Place Project
During the Energy and place project, we were required to answer one of the following essential questions:
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Reflection:
As the year came to a close, we dove into a final project in all of our classes. In humanities and chemistry, we worked on a joint project that focused on energy and place. This project was designed to challenge students to personally reflect and explain their emotions and personal connections to energy through writing as well as challenging students to deeply research and understand the current energy crisis we are facing. Through the humanities portion of this project, we learned about environmental ethics such as preservationism, conservationism and innovationism. We also spent time analyzing and identifying nature writing through the authors Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey. To practice our nature writing, we were assigned a inspiration journal where we were challenged to write about the nature around us or to write about our perception of a particular energy source we were observing at the time. I learned that through nature writing, I flourished and thrived on deeply beautiful descriptions. While reading Leopold, I find it wordy and frustratingly in-concise, my writing style lends itself to the lengthy descriptions. In humanities, we really developed our personal environmental ethic and began to think about a place that we could connect to as our "sense of place." Humanities allowed me to discover and express personal ideas that were just below the surface and needed an outlet. The sense of place essay challenged me to think critically about my self-awareness as well as express a raw opinion in refined writing: two contrasting elements of a written piece.
At the beginning of this project, I seriously overestimated the simplicity of the assignment. I thought that this was a personal essay that required no research, making it an easy write. I soon learned that it was much more intensive than I had originally expected. Going into this project, I had little understanding of the different types of environmental ethic, which meant I had little understanding of my personal beliefs. I was able to write the descriptions of the place, but I was confronted with the issue of connecting my emotions to my ethic. I felt that the ties were there, but uncovering them proved to be much more difficult than I had anticipated and took an entire editing process to reveal those links. When I realized my essay needed a lot of work, I sat down with it and began to "massage" the writing. I began this extensive refinement process by reading my essay to myself and figuring out what I was trying to say. Then, I wrote more pieces that tied ideas together, perhaps even in a bland fashion in some places. Once I felt like I had made the connections and my essay was closer to a complete project, I called in my mom to help me. We read through the whole thing multiple times and cut, reworded, reorganized and rewrote entire sections until my ideas were clearly expressed. With a second set of eyes, I was forced to explain what my writing was trying to symbolize, which helped my writing develop as well as my understanding of my environmental ethic because talking, clarifies ideas. Essentially, making my emotions and personal connections correlate to my environmental ethic was the most challenging part of this project. However, through my editorial process, I learned how to connect my ideas myself and then I expressed them through speaking to a reader of the essay to make sure that what I was writing was representative of what I wanted to express. This project made me grow not only through slowing down and really reflecting internally, but also through my process of crafting beautiful work.
Due to the personal nature of this project, I quickly learned that I needed to allow myself to become completely saturated in the essay and the visual. As my essay transformed from the first draft to a piece of work that I am proud to present, I realized how much I actually poured into this project. My essay is really strong in the category of cohesion. We were challenged to write about a place and tie our personal place into our beliefs of energy, which is a broad topic. Through my essay, I write my experience of a place and how that place allowed me to better understand the place of each individual in the "whole churning civilization." Then, I wrote about how the lights that I witnessed were the result of the innovation of individuals and that the lights are a human privilege. One area where there is clear cohesion in my essay is where I write about the necessity of human innovation: “How else would we be able to witness these city lights or mutter the lyrics of a familiar song on the car radio? Our untamed minds have tamed nature for our convenience.” This section of my essay demonstrates my connection of the comfort of energy to the way we have “tamed nature” to utilize these resources. Through this project, I saw the most development in my essay and I ended up producing an essay that proudly allowed me to express a personal opinion and catharsis.
On principle, I am in support of joint projects. I find that it is easy to link math and science, but linking humanities and science is challenging as well as thrilling. I loved this joint project because we were dealing with such a real, current issue. Working on similar topics in both classes allowed for a more rounded understanding of the energy concepts, which I find valuable as we move forward in a nation that is facing this crisis on a daily basis. In chemistry, we really were able to understand the science and the justifications for systems of energy production. Then, humanities allowed for us to deeper develop personal understandings of the environment and energy as we studied nature writing and environmental ethic. It is clear to me, the way the two classes complimented each other. Through each class, I gained deeper understanding of the essential questions for the project. The first essential question is asking the students to think deeply about the way energy production impacts place. In the place that I wrote about, I am witnessing the result of energy production and it adds to the dimension and the beauty of the place. However, I know that the place where this energy is actually being produced is negatively impacted through the intrusion of man in nature. Every aspect of this project furthered my understanding of the essential questions as I have continued to learn far beyond my previous knowledge.
- How does energy production impact place?
- How do your sense of place, your environmental ethic and your understanding of our energy needs influence your perception of man’s use of Earth’s resources and your own lifestyle decisions?
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Reflection:
As the year came to a close, we dove into a final project in all of our classes. In humanities and chemistry, we worked on a joint project that focused on energy and place. This project was designed to challenge students to personally reflect and explain their emotions and personal connections to energy through writing as well as challenging students to deeply research and understand the current energy crisis we are facing. Through the humanities portion of this project, we learned about environmental ethics such as preservationism, conservationism and innovationism. We also spent time analyzing and identifying nature writing through the authors Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey. To practice our nature writing, we were assigned a inspiration journal where we were challenged to write about the nature around us or to write about our perception of a particular energy source we were observing at the time. I learned that through nature writing, I flourished and thrived on deeply beautiful descriptions. While reading Leopold, I find it wordy and frustratingly in-concise, my writing style lends itself to the lengthy descriptions. In humanities, we really developed our personal environmental ethic and began to think about a place that we could connect to as our "sense of place." Humanities allowed me to discover and express personal ideas that were just below the surface and needed an outlet. The sense of place essay challenged me to think critically about my self-awareness as well as express a raw opinion in refined writing: two contrasting elements of a written piece.
At the beginning of this project, I seriously overestimated the simplicity of the assignment. I thought that this was a personal essay that required no research, making it an easy write. I soon learned that it was much more intensive than I had originally expected. Going into this project, I had little understanding of the different types of environmental ethic, which meant I had little understanding of my personal beliefs. I was able to write the descriptions of the place, but I was confronted with the issue of connecting my emotions to my ethic. I felt that the ties were there, but uncovering them proved to be much more difficult than I had anticipated and took an entire editing process to reveal those links. When I realized my essay needed a lot of work, I sat down with it and began to "massage" the writing. I began this extensive refinement process by reading my essay to myself and figuring out what I was trying to say. Then, I wrote more pieces that tied ideas together, perhaps even in a bland fashion in some places. Once I felt like I had made the connections and my essay was closer to a complete project, I called in my mom to help me. We read through the whole thing multiple times and cut, reworded, reorganized and rewrote entire sections until my ideas were clearly expressed. With a second set of eyes, I was forced to explain what my writing was trying to symbolize, which helped my writing develop as well as my understanding of my environmental ethic because talking, clarifies ideas. Essentially, making my emotions and personal connections correlate to my environmental ethic was the most challenging part of this project. However, through my editorial process, I learned how to connect my ideas myself and then I expressed them through speaking to a reader of the essay to make sure that what I was writing was representative of what I wanted to express. This project made me grow not only through slowing down and really reflecting internally, but also through my process of crafting beautiful work.
Due to the personal nature of this project, I quickly learned that I needed to allow myself to become completely saturated in the essay and the visual. As my essay transformed from the first draft to a piece of work that I am proud to present, I realized how much I actually poured into this project. My essay is really strong in the category of cohesion. We were challenged to write about a place and tie our personal place into our beliefs of energy, which is a broad topic. Through my essay, I write my experience of a place and how that place allowed me to better understand the place of each individual in the "whole churning civilization." Then, I wrote about how the lights that I witnessed were the result of the innovation of individuals and that the lights are a human privilege. One area where there is clear cohesion in my essay is where I write about the necessity of human innovation: “How else would we be able to witness these city lights or mutter the lyrics of a familiar song on the car radio? Our untamed minds have tamed nature for our convenience.” This section of my essay demonstrates my connection of the comfort of energy to the way we have “tamed nature” to utilize these resources. Through this project, I saw the most development in my essay and I ended up producing an essay that proudly allowed me to express a personal opinion and catharsis.
On principle, I am in support of joint projects. I find that it is easy to link math and science, but linking humanities and science is challenging as well as thrilling. I loved this joint project because we were dealing with such a real, current issue. Working on similar topics in both classes allowed for a more rounded understanding of the energy concepts, which I find valuable as we move forward in a nation that is facing this crisis on a daily basis. In chemistry, we really were able to understand the science and the justifications for systems of energy production. Then, humanities allowed for us to deeper develop personal understandings of the environment and energy as we studied nature writing and environmental ethic. It is clear to me, the way the two classes complimented each other. Through each class, I gained deeper understanding of the essential questions for the project. The first essential question is asking the students to think deeply about the way energy production impacts place. In the place that I wrote about, I am witnessing the result of energy production and it adds to the dimension and the beauty of the place. However, I know that the place where this energy is actually being produced is negatively impacted through the intrusion of man in nature. Every aspect of this project furthered my understanding of the essential questions as I have continued to learn far beyond my previous knowledge.
Wounded Knee Historical Inquiry
As a college preparatory school, Animas aims to assign projects that will set students up for success in college and higher education. One particular skill students must develop is historical analysis. We dove into this project and analyzed 10 documents to understand the massacre at Wounded Knee. We read and annotated these documents and then wrote analyses of these documents, using our close reading and historical thinking skills. After analyzing the documents, we wrote a textbook passage about the events at Wounded Knee and aimed for a bland writing. Through the documents, we discovered how difficult it is to be an unbiased source and so when we wrote our textbook entry, we tried to maintain an indifferent tone while recounting the historical facts, staying true to each side of the story.
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Oral Rhetoric Project
As young adults in the changing world, we are always learning. We are the up and coming generation. If we don't know take time to pay attention and analyze the news and rhetoric now, we wont be able to when it is most important in our futures. Through this project, we really gained the skills to take apart false information and identify fallacies as well as creating our own ideas with multiple sources. This project allowed us to express our voice and share with the world, our perspectives through op-eds and oral rhetoric. In Humanities, we researched everything from the Military Industrial Complex to the US Foreign policies. Additionally, we spent a large portion of our time doing our own research and discovering something we are passionate about to express our opinion. This research we completed was used to write and op-ed for our final project. By reading and picking apart professional op-ed's from the local publications, we learned what made a well written, effective piece. This information allowed us to form our own op-eds to express our opinions. Along with our writing piece, we then created an oral project to perform at exhibition. Final projects ranged from creative poems to fact-filled TED talks. At the end of the project, we presented our oral pieces to an audience at a small studio downtown. We brought the heat and revealed the informed voices of the youth.
There is so much I still don't know. If I have learned anything in this project, it is this. Yes, I gained actual facts and information, but those facts will soon loose their sharpness and all I will have is the general idea of the concept. What will always stick with me is the fact that I still know nothing. We are always allowed to keep learning, and it is up to me to go and find information to sustain myself. The other thing that I have learned through this project is that there are always going to be people with conflicting ideologies and unique rhetoric. The way that I choose to express my ideology is completely different than my peers, so there is always new perspectives. Lastly, I have learned that the American experience has many facets. There are so many parts of history that all add up to result in the world we currently live in and that is exciting because there is so much more to learn about. Always.
My favorite part of this project was that we were allowed to have a personal connection to what we wanted to write about. There was freedom for us to find something we were personally passionate about instead of being assigned a specific part of history. I connected to this project because I focused on two things that I was interested in. Originally, I started writing about obesity and the ingredients inside of the junk food we are hooked on. This is interesting to me because I try to consciously live through the way I eat and treat my body. I find the whole fast food process fascinating. Then I decided to write and editorial for the newspaper about standardized testing. I ended up using this op-ed as my final project because it was much more developed. However, I started writing this particular op-ed after taking the PSAT. I was extremely frustrated at the stupidity of the test and so passionately began to write about the ridiculousness of the standardized testing system. I liked learning about these topics because I was interested in them, so I did tons of research and tried to go the extra mile instead of doing the bare minimum like I do when I don't enjoy the topic.
The most difficlt thing about this project was staying focused. We had a word limit of 1,000 words. For me, that limit was the death of me. When I started researching, I thought it would be fairly straight forward. I would start researching the obesity epidemic, and then I would find all these causes that linked to each other, so in order to research one of them, I had to research all of them. By doing this, I took myself down a wormhole of too much research and then I tried writing about too much in the final piece. My issue, was narrowing down my topic and putting aside the rest of the evidence without worrying about linking it all together. For me, this focus was what stumped me up.
I have discovered so much about myself. No matter what happens, I think my perspective will always be changing and at this moment in my life, I was able to research something that was interesting to me. As a young American with an emerging perspective, this was a great experience to start developing my own perspective and I will also continue to strengthen those as I age. With this information, I have a strong base that I will always build upon.
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There is so much I still don't know. If I have learned anything in this project, it is this. Yes, I gained actual facts and information, but those facts will soon loose their sharpness and all I will have is the general idea of the concept. What will always stick with me is the fact that I still know nothing. We are always allowed to keep learning, and it is up to me to go and find information to sustain myself. The other thing that I have learned through this project is that there are always going to be people with conflicting ideologies and unique rhetoric. The way that I choose to express my ideology is completely different than my peers, so there is always new perspectives. Lastly, I have learned that the American experience has many facets. There are so many parts of history that all add up to result in the world we currently live in and that is exciting because there is so much more to learn about. Always.
My favorite part of this project was that we were allowed to have a personal connection to what we wanted to write about. There was freedom for us to find something we were personally passionate about instead of being assigned a specific part of history. I connected to this project because I focused on two things that I was interested in. Originally, I started writing about obesity and the ingredients inside of the junk food we are hooked on. This is interesting to me because I try to consciously live through the way I eat and treat my body. I find the whole fast food process fascinating. Then I decided to write and editorial for the newspaper about standardized testing. I ended up using this op-ed as my final project because it was much more developed. However, I started writing this particular op-ed after taking the PSAT. I was extremely frustrated at the stupidity of the test and so passionately began to write about the ridiculousness of the standardized testing system. I liked learning about these topics because I was interested in them, so I did tons of research and tried to go the extra mile instead of doing the bare minimum like I do when I don't enjoy the topic.
The most difficlt thing about this project was staying focused. We had a word limit of 1,000 words. For me, that limit was the death of me. When I started researching, I thought it would be fairly straight forward. I would start researching the obesity epidemic, and then I would find all these causes that linked to each other, so in order to research one of them, I had to research all of them. By doing this, I took myself down a wormhole of too much research and then I tried writing about too much in the final piece. My issue, was narrowing down my topic and putting aside the rest of the evidence without worrying about linking it all together. For me, this focus was what stumped me up.
I have discovered so much about myself. No matter what happens, I think my perspective will always be changing and at this moment in my life, I was able to research something that was interesting to me. As a young American with an emerging perspective, this was a great experience to start developing my own perspective and I will also continue to strengthen those as I age. With this information, I have a strong base that I will always build upon.
Click on the link: Oral Rhetoric Project to find my project
This I Believe: What Do I Believe and Why?
For this project we were tasked with writing a believe statement that one of our core beliefs. A credo statement if you will. These were written based off of something we strongly believed in and something we could personally connect with. A couple things we tried to make sure to incorporate in our statements was a narrative story that showed how that belief came about and belief that the audience could understand, while writing with authenticity. Here's the catch, we only had 500 words for our entire core belief. During this project we read a lot of statements on the This I Believe website which allowed us to discover many examples that clearly met the guidelines. For me, I have discovered that I learn really well from reading and seeing examples from other people and this website allowed me to do that. After reading many essays, From Bela Fleck to Hellen Keller to "regular" citizens, the task of taking my writing and cutting it down to 500 words seemed less daunting and the challenges I faced now only fell upon the trouble of deciding on a topic. While reading essays, I felt an immediate connection to the author and their experience and I knew that I wanted to be able to move my audience in a similar way. To get our minds thinking about belief, we wrote credo statements. These were shorter versions of similar topics and allowed us to get some ideas flowing and bouncing off each other for feedback. I wrote about how I loved people and how there are beautiful things about the human race that we often don't focus on. After writing this, I felt that my belief wouldn't be understood and the idea that "I believe in people" wouldn't be well received in a classroom of critical thinkers that have all been trying to uncover and dissect the underbelly of the human population for two solid years of humanities courses. Then I was back at the beginning with a pot full of ideas that are each rich in their own way, and the task of selecting one to focus on for 500 short words.
At the beginning of this project, I had so many ideas that I wanted to include in my essay. So many ideas that I wanted to express and share with my classmates and the world with the intent of spreading my insight of life. Since, you know, I know so much about life. I wanted to write about something unique so my essay would stand out. I wanted to write about something that was ordinary, like sweatpants, and write an amazing narrative that made the audience see something beautiful in that ordinary object. Through this process, I realized that there are ideas that I want to express and just need a way to do it. Before, I had never really found a way to express myself. This project allowed me to think of all of this ideas I was keeping inside my head, just waiting for the perfect outlet for expression. Also, through this project, I learned that lessons of life are happening every second around us. Even when I think I know all I need to for the time being, something amazing happens to me and I realize there is so much more in this world. To realize this and know that I can't include all of my ideas in to one 500 word essay was a belittling realization indeed. However, I found a way to write clearly enough to express my ideas and stay focused on one topic. For this project, perspective was the most important Habit of Heart and Mind I utilized. I had to be able to pick the most important perspective and focus on those specific ideas to make my essay a concise, solid piece of writing. Perspective also helped me narrow down my belief because I thought of the perspective my class mates were coming from and I wanted to write the belief that best matched their realm of understanding.
In my essay i think that I am most proud of how I used a metaphor to encompass my ideas. I was walking through the halls with all of these great ideas and decided to toss some ideas around when I stumbled into the metaphor that I used to drive my whole essay: "I believe in sharing my umbrella in the rain." I used this idea to show the fact that I believe that unconditional love includes more than just love. It includes forgiveness, distance and self-love. These are the three things that I talked about in my essay. For each one, I told a story about a friend that helped me learn that lesson of life. The metaphor that I used was helpful for me to tell the story like I was simple just sharing my umbrella in the rain with three friends and a lover instead of revealing life lessons. In my essay, I feel like I wrote from a true, honest perspective, using an authentic and real standpoint as the pedestal of my writing. One particular section where I am being absolutely genuine with the audience is where I write; "After vowing to stop caring, somehow I couldn't forget what that love felt like and I surrendered to my heart and welcomed new beginnings." At this particular part in my writing, I had a hard time vocalizing exactly what my relationship with that friend was after I forgave him. "New beginnings" was the easiest way to put the continuation of our friendship. Expressing a lot of these concepts were difficult and I think that I worked through my fears of exposing too much by just writing and let my emotions show, even if that meant writing something that was more honest than intended. And over all it is that honesty that strengthens my essay through the metaphor, which aims to ease the audience into my truthful confessions.
As an honors student, I am going to need to send my essay to NPR and as my essay stands, it is not the most beautiful piece of writing. In fact, I wrote it one night in the desert when the sun was long gone and the clouds were beginning to form overhead. I sat myself down and took bits and pieces from previous drafts to form them into a substantial piece of writing. In that campground 20 minutes outside of Taos, I read my essay to my mom and brother multiple times to get their feedback and they worked through the small kinks with me. However, this means that my essay was never critiqued by my peers. I value my peers' opinions almost more than anything and before I send it to NPR I would love more feedback on my essay from my classmates. In the last sentence of my third paragraph I wrote; "Because it doesn't matter if I spend every waking moment with someone or see them in passing to share a knowing look of affection; unconditional love can span any distance." This sentence, along with a couple others, sound choppy to me and I would like to work through them to ensure fluidity for the audience. Though small edits like this are important, what is even more important is refinement of the message. I feel like what I wrote did a great job of encompassing authenticity and a narrative story, but I am unsure of how well I connect to the audience. I want to know how I can write to make sure that the audience feels that awe of understanding the feeling I am writing about. A solid, focused peer critique would allow me enough feedback to make my writing more relevant to the larger community that I would be presenting my essay to.
Like I previously stated in the second paragraph, there are thousands of ideas and beautiful concepts floating around us all the time. There is no limit to the expanse of beliefs that people in this wonderful world share. As a member of the human community, I have got to thinking about the individual experience. How is it possible that we all have our own experiences of life and learn different things, but then still have the connection and understanding of each other. Emotions. It comes down to emotions. If I go and have an amazing experience, running, lets say, and my friend goes to the lake and feels that amazing bliss of happiness in a different setting, we are still sharing that emotion. Although it may seem obvious, this lead into the idea that we are all the same and that we are all still learning. There is a relaxation practice that walks you through reminding yourself that "just like me" this person is suffering, rejoicing and learning about life and trying to make it work. We all come together and write our ideas down and though we may be writing about different things, we are finding a way to stay connected through the simple emotions that are inevitable with the human existence.
At the beginning of this project, I had so many ideas that I wanted to include in my essay. So many ideas that I wanted to express and share with my classmates and the world with the intent of spreading my insight of life. Since, you know, I know so much about life. I wanted to write about something unique so my essay would stand out. I wanted to write about something that was ordinary, like sweatpants, and write an amazing narrative that made the audience see something beautiful in that ordinary object. Through this process, I realized that there are ideas that I want to express and just need a way to do it. Before, I had never really found a way to express myself. This project allowed me to think of all of this ideas I was keeping inside my head, just waiting for the perfect outlet for expression. Also, through this project, I learned that lessons of life are happening every second around us. Even when I think I know all I need to for the time being, something amazing happens to me and I realize there is so much more in this world. To realize this and know that I can't include all of my ideas in to one 500 word essay was a belittling realization indeed. However, I found a way to write clearly enough to express my ideas and stay focused on one topic. For this project, perspective was the most important Habit of Heart and Mind I utilized. I had to be able to pick the most important perspective and focus on those specific ideas to make my essay a concise, solid piece of writing. Perspective also helped me narrow down my belief because I thought of the perspective my class mates were coming from and I wanted to write the belief that best matched their realm of understanding.
In my essay i think that I am most proud of how I used a metaphor to encompass my ideas. I was walking through the halls with all of these great ideas and decided to toss some ideas around when I stumbled into the metaphor that I used to drive my whole essay: "I believe in sharing my umbrella in the rain." I used this idea to show the fact that I believe that unconditional love includes more than just love. It includes forgiveness, distance and self-love. These are the three things that I talked about in my essay. For each one, I told a story about a friend that helped me learn that lesson of life. The metaphor that I used was helpful for me to tell the story like I was simple just sharing my umbrella in the rain with three friends and a lover instead of revealing life lessons. In my essay, I feel like I wrote from a true, honest perspective, using an authentic and real standpoint as the pedestal of my writing. One particular section where I am being absolutely genuine with the audience is where I write; "After vowing to stop caring, somehow I couldn't forget what that love felt like and I surrendered to my heart and welcomed new beginnings." At this particular part in my writing, I had a hard time vocalizing exactly what my relationship with that friend was after I forgave him. "New beginnings" was the easiest way to put the continuation of our friendship. Expressing a lot of these concepts were difficult and I think that I worked through my fears of exposing too much by just writing and let my emotions show, even if that meant writing something that was more honest than intended. And over all it is that honesty that strengthens my essay through the metaphor, which aims to ease the audience into my truthful confessions.
As an honors student, I am going to need to send my essay to NPR and as my essay stands, it is not the most beautiful piece of writing. In fact, I wrote it one night in the desert when the sun was long gone and the clouds were beginning to form overhead. I sat myself down and took bits and pieces from previous drafts to form them into a substantial piece of writing. In that campground 20 minutes outside of Taos, I read my essay to my mom and brother multiple times to get their feedback and they worked through the small kinks with me. However, this means that my essay was never critiqued by my peers. I value my peers' opinions almost more than anything and before I send it to NPR I would love more feedback on my essay from my classmates. In the last sentence of my third paragraph I wrote; "Because it doesn't matter if I spend every waking moment with someone or see them in passing to share a knowing look of affection; unconditional love can span any distance." This sentence, along with a couple others, sound choppy to me and I would like to work through them to ensure fluidity for the audience. Though small edits like this are important, what is even more important is refinement of the message. I feel like what I wrote did a great job of encompassing authenticity and a narrative story, but I am unsure of how well I connect to the audience. I want to know how I can write to make sure that the audience feels that awe of understanding the feeling I am writing about. A solid, focused peer critique would allow me enough feedback to make my writing more relevant to the larger community that I would be presenting my essay to.
Like I previously stated in the second paragraph, there are thousands of ideas and beautiful concepts floating around us all the time. There is no limit to the expanse of beliefs that people in this wonderful world share. As a member of the human community, I have got to thinking about the individual experience. How is it possible that we all have our own experiences of life and learn different things, but then still have the connection and understanding of each other. Emotions. It comes down to emotions. If I go and have an amazing experience, running, lets say, and my friend goes to the lake and feels that amazing bliss of happiness in a different setting, we are still sharing that emotion. Although it may seem obvious, this lead into the idea that we are all the same and that we are all still learning. There is a relaxation practice that walks you through reminding yourself that "just like me" this person is suffering, rejoicing and learning about life and trying to make it work. We all come together and write our ideas down and though we may be writing about different things, we are finding a way to stay connected through the simple emotions that are inevitable with the human existence.
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Updated on: 9.8.13
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Updated on: 9.8.13