Petite La Fleur

It is often associated with human nature to relate a situation to another or even find symbolism while comparing two ideas to each other; thus, the concept of finding deeper meanings within the use of nature in culture or art is more common that portrayed. For example, similar to musicians using symbolism of nature within their music to display emotion, poets and other artists have been using nature as a means of depicting the human condition since the beginnings of time. Embedding their art with connections to nature, William Wordsworth and Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote two beautiful poems heavily filled with nature references. However, while Wordsworth’s poem developed the theme of nature and its existence within his own life; Hopkins used nature as a connecting point to his greater context of religion. Therefore, the connections to nature itself was stronger within William Wordsworth’s poem, “My Heart Leaps Up” than Gerald Manley Hopkins’s “Spring”. William Wordsworth’s, “My Hea...

1. Be more positive 2. Build a workout routine 3. Spend more time with family 4. Stick to being Vegetarian 5. Buy less, save more 6. Travel/Go on Adventures 7. Graduate with a 3.9 High School GPA 8. Stress less!! 9. Try to practice more often 10. Learn more recipes 11. Hang out with friends frequently 12. Keep in contact with people 13. Write. Every. Single. Day!! 14. Soul/Career Search 15. Attend Church 16. Be more aware (World News/Affairs) 17. Spend more time in nature 18. Take better care of myself

So this dream is a very particular one indeed, so bear with me. The dream begins with a road trip with David, Heather, Caitlyn and me driving through the mountains. We're having a good time, with the windows down and music blasting. Partying it up, yanno? Then we arrive to this cabin that Heather and David set us up to stay at for our vacation. When we get in, they both tell Caitlyn and I we can never leave. That we have to live with them forever and we'll all be happy together. Creepy, right? Initially they lock me in a room, with a typewriter, plants, and nice olive wallpaper. So I think "Well, I can dig it." And so I just settle down and stay with them. Studying nature through my window, writing about it on my nice type writer and living with Heather, David, and Caitlyn. Then, speed forward to where we're all 70 years old. And David and Heather insist that I have to leave the cabin. Of course, I don't want to leave, I've lived with them for ...

Hey friends!! I DYED MY HAIR GREEN. WOOOO SURPRISE! I'll get to that later, but first ...... This morning I had a doctor's appointment on post at 8 am so I had to wake up at 6 in order to leave by 7:15. The appointment went well though and then I went grocery shopping with my mom at the Commissary and we grabbed a few things, mainly stuff for me, you know, fruit, veggies, and snack since I'm basically full vegetarian now. We swung by the house to put everything away and eat a quick lunch before going onpost. I had Senior Seminar at 12:20 where we had three guest speakers: UT Martin, some bank, and a lady for the honors program at Austin Peay. In English we were put into discussion groups for chapters 6-10, given projects to do (Brittany, Gabby, Emilia and I are doing Astrology) and then homework is to read chapters 11-12. My last class, Government, we just took notes the entire time over Political Parties and such. Afterwards, I had a battle of the books meeti...

(Photo by Kyle Bennett) Today was the Woodsmoor excursion! So the photos will speak for themselves but the activities included: tour/hiking, photo-taking scavenger, looming/weaving, fish printing, dinner, improv games, and campfire with marshmallows. Photo by Kyle Bennett Photo by Kyle Bennett Amazing Photos by Kyle: