Blog # 16 Lamotts stories

For class homework and for homework over thanksgiving was Lamotts stories inside the book Traveling Mercies. When I first looked at this book I was sort of nervous to read it because it is about religion and thoughts on faith. Well I am not very religious but I decided I would read it anyways.

In this book after reading six of the stories out of her book, I realized this wasnt that bad of a book. The stories were somewhat interesting. Every single one of them related to faith and how it interacted in her life. In every single short story she describes in this book it tells about part or a whole heroic journey she has taken.

In her stories she uses faith to get through the hard parts of the monomyth. In example she was talking about when the doctors told her that they had to keep taking blood from her son. She prayed to god and hoped for the best and luckily he only had an allergy. So she uses god and religion like in the stage of the monomyth help from the god or the goddess.

Add a comment December 1, 2008

Poem # 20 poems

first thoughts were anger

second thought was confusion

third thought was relief

fourth thought was happiness

poetry was hateful at first

once explained

turned out to be joyful

who knew?

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Poem # 19 Feelings about this class

anger

frustration

fear

of this class

the first week

finally

freedom

happiness

wisdom

at the end

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Poem # 18 Freedom of life

freedom

at last!

freedom

in  grasp!

freedom

to live

freedom

to give

freedom

freedom

freedom

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Blog # 15 Master of two worlds

In class we talked about the concept of the a “master of two worlds”. We talked about how many things in different stories can relate to this part of monomyth. Some parts of the monomyth were hard to understand or could be very hard to relate to, but this one came to me right away.

When i first came to college i was sure me and my best friend would stay friends because we came up together and were best friends in high school. Then after a week of classes she hated it here and decided to go home. I decided i wanted to stay. So i thought we would grow apart and at first we did because i had other friends up here and it was hard to keep both happy.

So we were started to drift apart. But once i learned how to handle both friends it was so much easier. I realized that i could have both friends and be happy. Both “worlds” were very different but i could blend my friends from home and friends from college together.

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Poem # 17 Refusal

brand new world

new adventures

compared to the old

dont wanna go back

no no no

cant go back

no no no

wanna stay here forever

never wanna go go go

back.

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Blog # 14 Refusal of the Return

During class we were put into groups and asked to discuss the topic of the refusal of the return. We found many characters in many different movies,novels and books that have experiened this. We decided to choose our blog topic as a time in your life that you experienced a refusal of the return. I didnt realize until after class that I had no idea what to write about.

So I thought about this topic for a while, and tried to think of times when I had experienced this but still nothing. So finally after thinking so hard my head hurt I realized I have not yet experienced this in my journey to college. I cannot think of any of my other journals in life relating to this. But i can imagine how it might happen when I do proceed to endure this in my journey to college.

After college I am planning to attend law school, but that is such a big step I am not going to want to move on. So I am going to hold myself back thinking about how scared I wil be to move on with my life. I guess until then I can only wait…

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Poem # 16 Tell the world

The ultimate boon

great knowledge

not knowing if you will share it or not

share it with the world

help the world out

if it is meant to be it will be

let everyone know that

hopefully it can help them out

tell the world

2 comments November 3, 2008

blog # 13 After apotheosis

After reading the stages of apotheosis and the ultimate boon in the heroic monomyth I was very confused. We were asked to write what we alone know and if we share it with the world. I wasn’t sure what was meant by this so I looked at other peoples blogs to see if I could understand.

So by looking at the apotheosis, the ultimate boon is what you have learned after the apotheosis and if you do go around sharing it to the world.I think that one of the things i have learned from many journeys in my life is that no matter what happens life goes on. I think this has been a very important thing in my life. Because when things go bad in my life i just think if it is supposed to work out it will work.

I think that i do share it. Because it is a major thing in my life and helps me to get through hard times so why not share it with other people if it could help them out in the long end. i like to tell this to my friends and family when they go through hard times because i have realized it i do wanna share it with other people.

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Poem # 15

Part 1

Wondering around

trying to find the right place for me

finally the right place for me

but now

an even harder task

the right thing for me

my career outcome all waited on this

part 2

Realization

oh realization

how good it feels

to know what you could do

for the rest of your life

selfless

helpfull

realization

1 comment October 29, 2008