Abstract:
There are similarities I find with others who are teachers such as the desire to construct and share the arts passionately. The artists who have influenced me with their application of patience in the art of origami include Tomoko Fuse, Robert J. Lang, Vincent Palacio, Kunihiko Kasahara, and John Montroll. Where does their patience come from? There tends to be an application of resourcefulness throughout the constructive process. Ultimately, a mixed media artist is envisioned when seeing and hearing Howe’s work and this vision is what my work will strive to provide. Her work titled “The Midnight” will be my guide as this essay develops. The media I will use shall include pictures, collage-like poetry pieces, and narratives to describe the sections much like introductions of myself through the work. Although usually designated for pictorial sketches, bound lineless paper becomes a space to share for visual arts of the imagination in with words. Rules are guidelines to follow for ease of communicating ideas and can be amended just as basic art techniques create a template with room for variations by the project designer. Diseases have their own rules for me to follow in order to stay in the best of health. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, or Lupus for short, has been the primary disease and rules I, from childhood have tried to defy. Sometimes these trials were in my favor, reducing the intense levels of medication while others have brought multiple near death experiences. How these experiences with the disease evoked my own sensations to write this narrative will be through a compilation of prose and poetry. “Literary sketchbooks” emerge with Howe’s use of the paper. My various uses of paper are my means of an outlet in response to Lupus; my Midnight. She continues drawing and printing mediums to convey her transition of thoughts to words and words to images with her audience. As I draw from my consciousness, I will try to trace with words, along with images, the practice of intertextually writing. Allusions will primarily be about the positive aspects of patience which has brought me this far and is the premise for this paper. I call this, Patience for Life with Lupus.
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Attached is a powerpoint of the vessels i created with clay this spring. To me they speak of the process of learning and of embodiment, Enjoy!
Ruins Spring Term Paper
Pilg – A Pilgrimage through Roethke and Spring
Spring Quarter Field Study Proposal
I will participate in all class activities throughout the week to include a weekly session in Calculated Poetics while continuing to work on a final My Poet’s research paper based on the life and poetry of Theodore Roethke. My research paper will include a cento poem where I will collect lines and passages from the collected work of Roethke and place them in a new Unoriginal piece while also including a chapter dedicated to the conversation between Roethke and myself. I will be keeping a log of weekly activities while tracking my progress through updates to the eAlphabet to include Reveries based on the reading of Neuro and poetry created throughout the quarter. I will also post the works created throughout the Calculated Poetics sessions spring quarter.
ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
Bachelardian Reverie in Relation to Neuro
- Pilg – Neuro Week 9 May 28, 2013 “The proliferation of the neuro – prefix is, no doubt, often merely a matter of fashion. Yet when ‘neuro-drinks’ promise to improve our brain power, when ‘neuro-trainers’ claim that their ...
- Pilg – Neuro week 8 “The prescription for humanity… is humanity. “ May 21, 2013 “The brain has certainly become a rich register for narratives for self-fashioning. There are now many neurobiological technologies of self-hood, that is to say, practices that seek to mold, shape, ...
- Pilg – Week 7 Neuro May 15, 2013 “And the means to be used were multiple – perhaps behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and even psychopharmaceuticals – for the aim is to reshape brain mechanisms in order to nip ...
- Pilg – Week 6 Neuro May 15, 2013 “And we have a social brain in that this organ is now construed as malleable, open to, and shaped by, social interactions – shaping sociality as it is itself reshaped ...
Poetry
Elements of Style
Calculated Poetics
- Pilg – Week 6 CP Poem So as reading through the reading of the week I stumbled upon “Fractal Geometry” and it jolted the hell out of me. The author goes on to speak, in stanza ...
- Pilg – Calculated Poetics Week 5 As I read Sphere I had the thought to work with something sphere related. I first tried to work with the sphere ...
Term Paper Abstract
I is for Illumination
is for ‘Illumination.’
Field Study Proposal
Questing the Grail–a continuation of C is for Ocean
In this Spring field study I will solidify my capability of semantic expression through the development of artistic form. I will compose a term paper based on my investigation of the lyrical forms employed by William Blake, Charles Baudelaire, and other inspiring poets. I will write poetry in response to the poems that evoke me the most, and, with the knowledge gained from this study, I will develop my own works of poetry. I will also be looking at the works of Kurt Cobain, as I work to develop a foundational understanding of expression and pursue it through public performance.
ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
Bachelardian Reverie
Poetry
Poetry Observed
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P is for Place
Field Study Proposal
“Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other.” Yi-Fu Tuan writes in the introduction to Space and Place: the Perspective of Experience. This quarter the student will research space and place as philosophical and psychological ideas that contrast and complement each other as they form the basis of the human experience. Using the precepts of Goethean science as outlined in Craig Holdrege’s article “Doing Goethean Science,” she will be traveling to different locations to experience the affects of a variety of spaces and places on herself, that will result in a research paper and a chapbook of poetry and short prose on the subject. She will be participating in the As Poetry Recycles Neurons Tuesday seminars online, as well as working with an online peer writing group and continuing her “Not Knowing Notebook” started in Fall and Winter quarters. Daily somatics and writing exercises and poetry readings will serve as inspiration and help the student to immerse herself in and actively observe her environment.
Gallery: As Space Becomes Place
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Weekly log and field notes
- P – Week 8 Log June 8, 2013 5.20.13: 1 morning pages, 1/2 meditation, 2 walking meditation/nature hike, 2 poetry workbook, 1 Wordpress, 1 Neuro/reverie 5.21.13: 3/4 morning pages, 1 walking meditation, 3 writing paper, 2 reading Everything Being ...
- P – Week 7 – Log & Update May 21, 2013 5.13.13: 1 morning pages, 1/2 Bodystories, 1/2 meditation, 2 nature hike, 1/2 Neuro reverie, 2 Wordpress 5.14.14: 1 morning pages, 2 notes for paper, 1 writing poetry 5.15.14: 1 morning pages, 1 ...
- P – Week 6 – Log & Update May 21, 2013 5.6.12: 1 somatics/meditation, 2 Poetics of Space, 2 notes for paper, 3/4 Morning Pages, 1/2 revise seminar pass, 1 log/update, 2 poetry writing, 1/2 walking meditation “It is a strange situation. ...
- P – Week 5 log and update May 9, 2013 So, I have not been keeping up with my updates lately like a good girl, so here goes: I have driven back and forth across the midwest several times in the ...
- P – Week 4 Log May 2, 2013 4-22-13: 1/2 MP, 1/2 Tai Ji, 2 House of Incest (reading & writing), 2 freewriting, 2 reading Body & City, 1 seminar pass 4-23-13: 1/2 MP, 1/2 Tai Ji, 2 Everything ...
- P – Week 3 Log May 1, 2013 4-15-13: 1/2 MP, 1/2 Bodystories, 3 Body & City, 3 Space and Place, 4-16-13: 1/2 MP, 1/2 yoga, 1 Space & Place, 1 active observation & notetaking, 2 reading Moodle handouts 4-17-13: ...
- P – Week 2 Log May 1, 2013 Monday, 4-8-13: 1/2 MP, 1/2 Bodystories, 2 reading Space and Place, 2 freewriting, 2 internet research Tuesday, 4-9-13: 1/2 MP, 1/2 Tai Ji, 4 hours fighting with WordPress, posting to Moodle, ...
- P – Week 1 Log May 1, 2013 Monday, 4-1-13: 1/2 hr morning pages, 2 reading Neuro, 1/2 roadside Tai Ji (I got some very strange looks from the truckers at the rest stop, and J made fun ...
Bachelardian Reverie
- P – Week 9 Reverie May 28, 2013 “Emotions course through the veins, engage the heart and the lungs, the bowels and the genitals, the muscles, the skin and face.” (Rose/Abi-Rached, 230) The physical reactions of the non-physical…can emotions ...
- P – Week 8 Reverie May 28, 2013 “Our Perception of the World Is a Fantasy That Coincides with Reality” (Rose/Abi-Rached, 207) Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality on occasion if we’re lucky ...
- P – Week 7 Reverie May 15, 2013 “Lombroso’s catalogue of physical deformities and anomalies of behavior…laziness, frivolity, use of argot, tendency to adorn body and surroundings with hieroglyphics, moral insensibility, and emotional instability.” (Rose/Abi-Rached, 170) Tattoos spelling out ...
- P – Week 6 Reverie May 7, 2013 “What is in our nature is the fact that we humans are born incomplete, requiring interaction with others, and enmeshing in language, meaning, and culture, to be completed…we are not ...
Poetry, Prose & Miscellany
- P – Week 9 Poetry/Prose – “Everywhere and Nowhere” Everywhere and Nowhere As my journey closes I realize that space is all I’ve ever wanted and that I don’t want to feel penned in by place. I don’t need those ...
- P – Week 8 Poetry – “Personal Space” Personal Space At the start of this experiment I worry that we will grow tired of each other in such close quarters. All shared spaces with multiple uses, a clever design but with no eye ...
- P – Week 7 Poetry – “Longing For Space” Longing for Space I watch the clock and am waiting anxiously. My bag was packed days too early and still I shuffle and reshuffle my belongings, only one suitcase but it seems like far ...
- P – Week 6 Poem – Homecoming? The locals all think we’re wild gypsies –and maybe some of us are– “watch your wallets and hide your daughters.” They know the men by their muddy work boots and eternal sunburns, by eyes ...
- P – Week 5 Poem – “Fruit Stripe Barn” Fruit Stripe Barn O fruit stripe barn, in the wilds of western Illinois, down an old highway traveled only by those seeking to avoid others, you rise from the oppressive flatness, a beacon of whimsy in the ...
- P – Week 4 – Roadspace Reverie Taking the old gold Mustang out on the backcountry roads. It’s older than I am but with decidedly more energy. The cassette tapes rattling around on the floorboard are all ...
- P – Week 4 – Headspace: a list Headspace: a record of my thoughts as I drive a big ass truck across two states by myself. -Why didn’t I get to drive the Mustang? I don’t care if the ...
- P – Week 4 Poem – “Kentucky Spring: haikus” Kentucky Spring: haikus White butterfly flits among the wildflowers and trash, pausing to rest. Purple tree among the green, standing alone and proud to be unique. Cardinal couple and their bachelor friend in the rain, hunt for fat worms. White ...
- P – Week 3 Poem – “Chemical Dependency” Chemical Dependency* If, like the girl in the poem, my soul is in the shape of a square, as I suspect it is because I can sometimes feel it riding inside me, pressing against the ...
- P – Week 2 Prose – “Bonfire Reverie” 4-10-13 I’m sitting on a hill behind the house watching the bonfire burn in the hollow below, listening to the crickets in the tall grass at one end of the yard ...
Poetry Observed
Term Paper Abstract
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R is for Ruins (Spring)
Field Study Proposal
In this continuation of the R is for Ruins field study from Winter 2013, I will be taking a closer look at what it means to be a ruin and our fascination with ruins. I will be exploring various ghost towns, towns in disrepair, and “fully functional” cities In order to take a closer look at ruin in various states of its progression. I will be looking at current trends that incorporate ruins and see why they have grown. I will look into cyber culture , memory, and self as a ruin and will further explore all of this through poetry, prose, journaling, artwork, crafting, photography, and self meditation.
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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
- Week 7 May 18, 2013 May 13th .5 hour peer review 5 hours reading .5 hour Photoshop May 14th 5 hrs reading 1 hrs re-writing nuro reverie May 15th 1.5 hrs calc. poetic’s 4hrs reading May 16th 1.5hrs in class “my poets” 2hrs micro lecture 3hrs reading .5 writing May 17th 6hrs ...
- Week 6 May 18, 2013 May 6th 2 hour peer review/yoga 5 hours reading 1 hour Photoshop May 7th 5 hrs reading 2 hrs Photoshop 1hr research into Byron online May 8th 1.5 hrs calc. poetic’s 1.5 hrs artist lecture 2hrs reading May 9th 1.5hrs in class “my poets” 2hrs ...
- Week 5 log May 5, 2013 April 29th 1hr of peer review 3 hrs of reading Lord Byron 1hr writing 1hr meditative thinking April 30th 1hr Poetry Reading and Interpretation 1.5hr Seminar: As poetry recycles neurons in conversations between Marjorie Perloff’s poets and ...
- Week 4 log April 29, 2013 April 22th 3hrs reading The last Myth 2 hours Monday class session 2 hours writing April 23th 1.5hr Class seminar 1hr comp. lab w/class 3.5hrs collectively reading Ruins, The last myth, Neuro, the Midnight and some Lord ...
- Week 3 Log April 21, 2013 April 15th 2hrs reading 2 hours Monday class yoga session April 16th 3 hours working with photography/ getting acquainted with the new Photoshop .5 hr – Reading and Responding to Seminar Passes 1hr experimenting with sonnets April ...
BachelardianReverie
- Week 8 Reverie May 22, 2013 “The weight of evidence now implies that it is the brain, rather than some non-physical stuff, that feels, thinks, and decides. That means that there is no soul to fall ...
- Nuro Reverie #2 May 14, 2013 The anatomists and pathologists wage an interdisciplinary battle, Their argument: Nuropsycology. Integrated studies, a brain surgery into Vogts, Lenin, Forel, and Ferdinand. The analysis; positive eugenics. The Vogts! The Vogts themselves turned, successor of the institute: sterilization, incarceration, and murder of ...
- Neuro reverie #1 May 7, 2013 Human beings dance for this History with others Human contact does not just establish the conditions for the social and human sciences. Across the “two Cultures” We are governed or govern ourselves We live in groups Weather in ...
Poetry
- A walk I walk out to sea the wind is cold and harsh now in the morning spring the vapor of mermaid tears awaken within me fears.
- a bit A listless expression hangs upon my face, I feel nothing, my fingers dance in the void. Why am I this way? am I not real, is that the rhyme and reason for why I ...
- War zone There is no escape from this mess of decay and fire, the war zone has stretched its boundaries, and the sky grows angry and red as the sun begins to fall, and all the ...
- Memories and poetic bits I still remember all the good times, all the laughter, love, and the pain of thorns. I remember it all, pictures vividly dancing round. I saw the tears stream from your eyes, and watched them collect the ...
- What? The End When in the outside world, all seems to be crumbling, all seems to be at an end, what shall we consider the cause? Is it the workings of our politicians, bringing our spirits to a lowly ...
- The Stone (Another Memory Poem) I’ve seen the truth slip out your mouth and vanish. thus giving your speech no ring, nothing to hold to. There is no peace within this glade, as you stand befor me, sun ...
- Memories of Heartache Maybe I’m not dead yet but you’ve already buried me. you laid me to rest with her hand in yours, thorns of the rose drawing blood. “I’ll always love you” that’s what you said before I Turned my ...
- Unity in Time I hold within me all the secrets of my time not your time, just my clock not yours, It shifts me through the many gears that grind on my heart that tug at my sleeve and lead me to, where? I ...
- Winters Heart (A Reflection) The days fly by my window like the birds who having nowhere else to roam, and having made this dreary town their own, nestle in the hidden kiss of serpentine dew, Eden is old ...
- Cold Streets Its not sad to say that things just sliped away it happens all to often in this place. the streets are cold now, I cant hear your breath, what more is there left. I’ve been lost ...
Poetry Observed
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E is for Writing Spring
Field Study Proposal
Writing fiction creates a world where we can explore the deepest elements of being human, and that is the goal of my novel. How to Survive Being Blessed is a story of those who have been touched by the gods. It is fourteenth century England, but the Greek and Roman gods are still worshipped. The gods have been proven to exist and people serve them as best as they are able. The gods are not always perfect but they care for their people, while the government is too tied up in protecting the wealthy to actually do things that matter very much for its citizens. There is Mauri, who has been blessed by Hermes and chosen by Morpheus to spread dreams all across the country. There is Clarabelle, who serves no gods, preferring to believe that humans could one day take care of themselves enough to not need the gods. Mauri’s son Tom has been touched by Ares and learns how to fight not just for fighting’s sake but for justice and those who have been wronged. Colin is a boy, has always been a boy, and it is just a matter of proving it to everyone else. He has been blessed by Morpheus and is held in high regard because of the way he pursues his dreams. Nightingale has been chosen by Aphrodite to bring people together. All of them go through trials and terrors because of the work they have chosen to do with their lives and the gods that have chosen some of the work for them, and all of them struggle to find themselves and survive in the wake of powers so much greater than themselves. More than just writing a story, I seek to answer what it means to write. Why do I feel the need to tell this story? What does culture say about women, fantasy, and bodily autonomy? I seek to listen and to counter all of these stories with tales of my own, using the Holdrege format to tell the story.
The novella I finished is included as an appendix to the Spring paper. It is 24,000 words long and encompasses the story of Mauri. I was unable to write the whole thing due to time constraints and the unexpected length of Mauri’s story. I hope to continue to work on the stories for the other characters and eventually turn it into a full length novel or series.
ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
- E – Week 9 Log June 2, 2013 Monday 4 hours writing term paper Total hours: 4 Tuesday: 4 hours writing term paper 8 hours digitizing story Total: 12 Cumulative total: 18 Wednesday 4 hours digitizing story 7 hours writing term paper Total: 11 Cumulative total: 29 Thursday: 6 hours digitizing story Total: ...
- E – Week 8 Log May 26, 2013 Monday 4 hours editing Your Journey Home 3 hours digitizing How to Survive Being Blessed My handwriting is terrible Total: 7 hours Tuesday 4 hours writing poetry Too sick to go to class, wrote a reverie on ...
- E – Week 7 Log May 18, 2013 Monday – 3 hours reading. Wanted to finish brushing up on Tawada before the seminar. Wanted to explore some more of the text. I’m starting to see Perloff’s delightfully dry sense of ...
- E – Week 2 Log May 14, 2013 Class Work 10 Hours The rest of the class was at the retreat this week. I stayed home because the woods aren’t really cripple friendly. I spent several hours writing poetry ...
- E – Week 1 Log May 14, 2013 Class work 20 Hours It is the first week of class. Lots of reading, lots of different sessions to attend. All kinds of new information. This is a great idea and ...
- E – Week 6 Log May 12, 2013 Classwork – 10 Hours The reading from Rose this week was particularly dense with medical jargon. It was a bit of a difficult read. Also hard to think about the idea ...
- E – Week 5 Log May 4, 2013 Core Program – 20 Hours The chapter from Neuro was absolutely amazing. It was easier for me to read, somehow, despite the fact that normally I find Rose a bit dense. ...
- E – Week 4 Log April 29, 2013 How to Survive Being Blessed – 20 hours It’s coming along fairly well. Managed to get another twenty or so pages written. Chapter 1 comes in at twenty six pages, and ...
- E – Week 3 Log April 21, 2013 How to Survive Being Blessed – 20 hours The story is starting to come along. I’m working on the second draft of a couple of people, Mauri/Auntie being one of them. It’s tough ...
Neuro Reverie
- E – Reverie Week 8 May 24, 2013 “As for cognition, do we not think, literally here, with hands and eyes?” pg 230 “..there is nothing to fear in the rise to prominence of neurobiological attempts to understand and ...
- E – Week 7 Reverie May 19, 2013 “…your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules,” page 200 “…the self/nonself ...
- E – Week 6 Reverie May 11, 2013 Images do not speak for themselves. But what happens when they do? It is easy to see criminal acts, we do Through computers. But what makes The brain so amazingly different? Why is the brain ...
- E – Week 5 Bachelardian Reverie May 4, 2013 Ironies in Rose Autism doesn’t feel like A disorder. It feels different An excess of input of empathy, A lack of theory of mind, not mirror Neurons. Here psychology shows itself Why ask an autistic person ...
Poetry
- Week 9 Poetry Collection Says who? I am owned by these fictional characters They guide my waking life, rule what I have the chance to do. I tell them what I want them to do. They retort with ...
- E – Week 8 Poetry Collection Perloff – this poem is to make up for the class I missed on Tuesday. A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet, And Nikolas certainly makes Perloff sweeter. How refreshing ...
- E – Week 7 Poetry Collection The Most Beautiful Thing – somewhat suggestive The Most Beautiful Thing Oh it’s dark. But a small light shines, Illuminating what little I can see of her. It’s blurry. My glasses are next to ...
- E – Week 4 Poetry Collection Home I am built From the taunts of catty rich girls. They are hurdles on my path To boyhoood. I am filled With the sounds of rushing Creek water. Peace and quiet here When nowhere else feels Like home. I ...
- E – Week 3 Poetry Collection Life Life is a journey of seeking. We look for what we want to do When we grow up. We look for items, family Schools, careers, friends, books Better days, food, bathrooms, language. A college, a love, ...
- E – Week 2 Poetry Collection Ironies in Insults Calling someone a pansy Is a bit ironic. Pansies are tough flowers. Scouts of spring peeping Up through snow and freeze. They don’t need much water Thrive with very little attention. Not the kind of ...
- E – Week 1 Poetry Collections I Graph Relationships Novelists are actually mathematicians. We graph the interplay of conversation Show the probabilities of human interaction Write equations for the human heart Breaking down the large and infinite into Personal chunks of people There ...
- E – Week 6 Poem I was four. Which is funny, because One in four. This number seems low To me because of who I know. So many Survivors. People with broken hearts and Violated bodies. Stuck inside life with ...
- E – Week 5 Poetry Fantasy lives inside my blood. It has defined my childhood since I could read. I got Harry Potter for my fifth birthday, wrapped With shiny unicorns. (I still have that paper somewhere). When I ...
Poetry Observed
Term Paper Abstract
Abstract: How does my novel How to Survive Being Blessed recycle neurons? The first stage is taking ideas from culture to recycle into my own characters. The second stage is by using my own experiences. The third and last stage is by creating a story that is new and different from culture that will allow young adults to read about people who are like them, rather than the people that culture sees as beautiful or powerful.
C: Cycling and Recycling Field Study Post
Field Study proposal excerpt
This student will be more fully realizing her connections to cycles – inhalation and exhalation, consumption and elimination, solitude and community, inspiration and disillusion, night and day, spring and autumn, gathering and dispersing, and listening, holding and creating. In this contract, C is for Cycling, the student will gain new perspective on her basic needs and passions through bicycle travel, and immersion in Intentional Communities, Eco-Villages, and small farms across the United States.She will interview the people who live in these communities that live closely with cycles. In order to conduct interviews with the people she visits, and to share with others what she learns, the student will be completing a Human Subjects Review, learning basic interviewing, camera and sound recording skills. After she returns, this student intends to share what she has gathered by weaving these pieces into a cohesive whole, in the form of a short film.
My Blog: cyclingandrecyclingblog.wordpress.com
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ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes
- Time log week 10 June 9, 2013 5/27 – Monday 3 hours – writing/compiling poetry 2 hours – wrote a song 2 hours – preparing and sharing food 1.5 hours – played piano, listened to a sweet jam session 5/28 – Tuesday 1.5 ...
- Time log week 9 June 9, 2013 5/20 – Monday 2 hours – Massage and Reiki Trade (a little cycle of skill exchanging) 4 hours – preparing and sharing food with a beautiful community of people. Monday nights, “Late ...
- Time log week 8 May 27, 2013 Monday – BB 3 hours – hiking to white bear mine, finding peace in a place ravaged by greed and lack of forethought 2 hours – hiking up to the gulch – ...
- Time log week 6 (in progress) May 8, 2013 Monday – at 7 Seeds – Thunder Storm 1 hour – helping friends clean up old home and move out stuff 1.5 hours – reading Neuro, working on Sem pass 4 hours – ...
- Time log week 5 May 8, 2013 Monday – Wolf Creek to Grants Pass 5 hours – cycling of inhalation and exhalation 4 hours – listening, holding, and digging deeper Got my second flat of the trip today. It only ...
- Time log week 3 May 8, 2013 Friday – Leaving Olympia… arriving back in Olympia! 6 hours – biking and eating, expending and consuming energy, solitude 3 hours – disordering, ordering It was my intention of making it to Chehalis ...
- Time Log week 4 May 8, 2013 Saturday – a visit to Tryon Life Community Farm 1.5 hr – biking there; a lot of deep inhalation and rapid exhalation 7 hrs – at Tryon Life in a cycle between ...
- C: my blog site April 30, 2013 cyclingandrecyclingblog.wordpress.com Enjoy! <3
Bachelardian Reverie
- Bachelard week 8 May 28, 2013 “They have argued that the human brain… is evolved for a collective form of life… and the formation of groups both small and large to ...
- Bachelard week 8 May 25, 2013 “Most mysteriously, your brain turns its view back on itself to generate your sense of self-awareness.” Rose, N. Abi-Rached, J., 2012. Neuro: the new brain sciences and the management of the ...
- Bachelardian reverie week 7 May 22, 2013 “Strategies week to create the kinds of persons who can take responsibility for their actions, and they attempt to enhance self-control by acting on the brain” pg 196 “The boat inside ...
Poetry
- Bachelard week 8 “They have argued that the human brain… is evolved for a collective form of life… and the formation of groups both small and large to ...
- The light of the storm – Poetry week 7 The rain it pours and the lightning lashes. Each season comes and each season passes. The cycle of life, the cycle of death, neither will stop, neither will rest. The tree, it stands tall. The branches, they sway. The tree, ...
- Cathedrals of fractals Cathedrals of fractals The new sapphire glass glows in petals of iridescent fractals refracting into the spirals of the unfurling fern fronds. The honey sun rises slow over the redwood ridges Sounds of sleep ...
- Haikus of Evening Darkness drifts down now Silence flows into my soul I find peace in breath Whole, I meditate A star blinks through the trees My thoughts are now still Water leaps through rocks Trees dig deep to find ...
- Sun in the Storm The rain it pours and the lightning lashes. Each season comes and each season passes. The cycle of life, the cycle of death, neither will stop, neither will rest. The tree, it stands tall. The branches, they sway. The tree ...
- C: Poetry week 4 – I am the needle stitching I am the needle stitching The point of my body pulls The thread of energy behind me as my legs pump They go up and down Round and round Synchronized with the beat Of my lungs ...
- C: Poetry week 3 – Dream fabric I once heard that when caterpillars turn into butterflies, they dissolve entirely inside of the cocoons. Their bodies become liquid and energy and memory, which takes on new form, an ...
- C: my blog site cyclingandrecyclingblog.wordpress.com Enjoy! <3
Poetry Observed
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Term Paper Abstract
Goethean science is an approach to observation that allows the observer to see the connections between him or herself and the chosen phenomenon; to acknowledge and explore the environment’s effect on the observer, and the observer’s effect on what is observed. Through a field study in the class As Poetry Recycles Neurons at The Evergreen State College, I have used this phenomenological method to study cycles. I have spent the last two months bicycling down the west coast of the United States, visiting places where people choose to live more closely with cycles – including farms, intentional communities, and retreat centers. While cycling around to these various communities, I have used this approach, as described in Craig Holdrege’s paper Doing Goethean Science, to observe and interact with many cycles. I use his ideas along with the model of Buhner’s blend of poetry and prose in The Secret Teachings of Plants as a framework for this paper, as I seek to explain and illustrate this method. The Goethean practice begins with curiosity, a riddle, moves into observation or conversation with the phenomena, recycles the mind through exact picture building, and finds its completion in seeing the whole. Throughout this paper I have sought to bring my prose (in standard font) and poetic voices (centered and in Italics) into conversation with the voices of experts. Through this paper, it is my hope that the reader is able to understand and grasp Goethean science, and then apply this method of engaging the world to more deeply understand any question or phenomenon.
N is for Nature
….is for nature
I will be complete the majority of the in class activities (save for the calculated poetics) and studying on Human Nature, Natural Nature, Mental Nature, Nature of my self, Nature of the other and how to heal the wounds created by these worlds crashing together
Field Study proposal excerpt
I will be learning about the healing aspects of nature and how poetry used in concert with nature can be conducive to recovery . I will be trying to answer this question: what is so healing about nature? To show my work I will be posting excerpts from my journal that I will be writing in the style of Susan Howe’s The Midnight. I will also be reading books by Thoreau, Carlos Castaneda, Daniel Quinn, Stephen Harrod Buhner to gain additional view points on Nature from vastly different backgrounds and perspectives, and to formulate a synthesis of my own thoughts on nature with those that I study.
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Bachelardian Reverie
Poetry
Poetry Observed
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Term Paper Abstract
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