Author Archives: Jonathon Hiller

Pil is for Pilgrimage

 

Field Study Proposal

I will be conducting a month long field study on the emotional effects to myself during a pilgrimage of relationships. I will be visiting people of my past whom which I have not been in contact with for years. I will be capping my trip off with a week and a half of time with my father whom which I have not been able to communicate with since my time in Iraq. I will be reading texts such as The American Gospel by Erik Reece,  A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. During my pilgrimage I will be traveling through the western states of Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. I will be driving the 1600 miles in two sections. The first leg of my journey will take me into Placerville, CA and the second will take me to Peoria, AZ. I will be listening to audio books during my drives and I will be taking notes through the use of the Dragon Dictation app for the iPhone. I have enough funds and support to get me through my travels. I will have access to the internet on a daily basis the only exception being while I am driving I will be unable to be online.

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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

  • Pil – Week 8 Log March 4, 2013 Monday February 25 4 hours working on seminar pass 1.5 hours journal writing 2.5 hours reading An American Gospel by Eric Reece Tuesday February 26 4 hours working on seminar pass work 2.5 hours talking with my Father ...
  • Pil – Week 7 log February 24, 2013 February 18 4 hours working on homework 2.5 hours crafting poetry and writing in journal February 19 4 hours working on homework 1 hour talking to father via phone 1 hour working on poetry February 20 3 hours ...
  • Pil – Week 6 Log February 18, 2013 Monday February 11  4 hours Seminar Homework 1.5 hours journaling 3 hours meeting with my Father Tuesday February 12 4 hours seminar homework 2.5 hours reading An American Gospel 2 hours crafting journal and poetry 4 hours talking with ...
  • Pil – Week 5 Log February 10, 2013 Saturday February 2nd 12 hours journeying from Washington into California 3 hours reuniting with a soldier from my past. Monday February 4  4 hours Seminar Homework 2 hours touring the town of Placerville, California with ...

Bachelardian Reverie

  • Pil – Week 7 Bachelard February 20, 2013 “What a tension of childhoods there must be, held in reserve at the bottom of our being, for a poet’s image to make us suddenly relive our memories, reimagining our ...
  • Pil – Week 6 Bachelard February 13, 2013 “These images melt together in an intimate warmth, in the constant softness where the nucleus of the feminine bathes in every soul” (Bachelard 64) The woman to my left Your softness caresses ...
  • Pil – Week 5 Bachelard January 30, 2013 “Sometimes the words are unfaithful to the things. They try to establish oneiric synonymies between things. The phantomalization of objects is always expressed in the language of visual hallucinations.” (Bachelard ...

Poetry

  • Pil – The You in ME   Can’t you see this isn’t the idea You were meant to be like me and not me like you. But the universe said something different and here I am… Being, like you I am It’s still ...
  • Pil – As a Child As I stand on the cusp of the forever I look into the past and ask myself why. Why trouble with the endless nights and the sleepless journeys. Why see this through to ...
  • Pil – Stand with me Stand with me, Soldier of war. Side by side, shoulder to shoulder, fight beside me, bleed with me, Stand with me As our brothers fall as you leave this place of terror as you huddle with the ...
  • Pil – To My Father Smell assaults my whole, Flung back into the past to a time long ago, When I would sit at my father’s feet atthree am. You see my father was an early riser And always ...

Poetry Observed

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Winter Term Paper Abstract

To gain access to the methodology behind my field study of pilgrimage, the ultimate goal to reunite with my Father, you have to go to the beginning. First I came to the conclusion that I would take a pilgrimage to see my Father. I took the plunge and decided to filter through some old feelings I had been working through. I was scared and nervous for what this trip would contain but also excited for the result. I was on the cusp of something huge.

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