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It was a productive week on my paper. I read two books that I will use and loved them for their simplicity and objectiveness. It was a great juxtaposition of nature haibuns (haiku and prose) to go along with heavy… Continue Reading →
Vietnam was a horrible war.. The Beautiful Country was a heavy movie. The Ken Burns film on Vietnam was also heavy. This entire week was heavy. Are we going to learn anything positive and uplifting about these cultures? I guess… Continue Reading →
Two summers ago a couple asked to come out to my property in Alaska to check out what I was doing. This is the video they made.
The peer review extinguished every droplet of fear I had about sharing my work. My partners gave solid advice paralleled with ample compliments to counterbalance. Their papers were rich and showed great examples of techniques to use on my own…. Continue Reading →
I am tired as I write this at ten p.m. on Sunday. Great week of weather and solid week of class. The reason I signed up for this class was because of everything I read about the professors and I… Continue Reading →
I loved the music lesson this week’s class! The video about Pinoy boxers was powerful, followed by Dark Blue Suit packed a punch. I had an idea of how important boxers were for Irish, Latin and African Americans but I had… Continue Reading →
Every post I incorporate my own thoughts so I don’t want to be mister talkative. But I will say this. I signed up for this class to open my heart and that is exactly what is happening. This last week’s… Continue Reading →
The annotated bibliography guided me into greater depth in the direction of my paper. I hustled to the library to check out a dozen books on Japanese travel writings from 980 AD to today. I have been skimming them for… Continue Reading →
This is what I call a bathtub movie. Not in a sexual way but in an emotional way. I had to sit behind the class because of the tears. And to top it off, a couple of days prior we… Continue Reading →
I’ve been able to find some epic Japanese travel poems and stories both in and out of the library at Evergreen. It’s an unusual way for me to write… to first do a bunch of research and then write. I… Continue Reading →