Free+Write

Free write activity. 2/14/08 Word: Escape

Escape seems as if it is something we need. To just run away from problems that plague us, which often times seems like the only possibility, the only thing that we can directly feel the effects of, right now. But, this mode of problem solving just moves us from the problem, not the problem from us.

This solution is often instantly gratifying, but in the end, can do more harm than good. For we are just fooling ourselves, and are allowing the problem to remain, in selfishness, passing it on to another. 1204255549

My word for the free write activity was SECRET and this is what I had written.

Secrets, secrets are no fun. Secrets are for everyone! I don't think this phrase that people use is correct. I think secrets are not fun, they only hurt people, and that they are NOT for everyone! Secrets shouldn't be told...that's why they're called secrets. I wish Alex Epple would shut up because I can't think about secrets while he keeps saying what he's writing! But anyways secrets (and times up)

Secrets should not be told because they hurt people and rumors can start from them. Sometimes when people tell me secrets I tell other people. I know I shouldn't. I guess that's why people say I gossip alot. 1204257917KCa

On Valentines Day this past year, Br. Tom asked us to free write for two minutes. Not thinking about what we were writing, but more so writing what first came to our mind. I did not understand this assignment at first, but then i realized it was sort of an introduction to what we would soon be taking part in during class. I had to have great **patience**. Ironically, patience was my word this day.. and i remember writing that patience relys off of other things. Such as thought, and heart. In order to have patience, you have to have //desire.// Without desire, how can you tell yourself to mentally do something. Now, after thinking back to this day in class, and the word I had chosen to think and write about in the short time span of a couple minutes, I realize patience is something that I have been lacking. It is so easy to get wrapped up in irrelevant things that have absolutely nothing to do with what someone could be participating in. But now, I think that the __idea__ of patience is something needed to understand the written language of Emily Dickinson. I cannot state this for a fact, but based off of the knowledge I have gained from reading her works in class, Dickinson must have wanted her readers to think about what they get out of her writing. It is now all clear to me. Emily's poetry teaches lessons and values to her audience, for some it is just words; but to others it contains meaning. 1204261534

We did another free write in class today and brother tom was telling us how, in his senor year or high school, he used to have a journal and his assignment was to write their personal thoughts in the journal. He said that his put his old journal entires on his bro tom website. I think that this is such a cool thing to have because it's like a time capsule and now we are able to read about everything that we was going through when he was our age. I know that we wouldn't do this as a class assignment instead of posting or anything but i think it would be a fun activity to do because i know that after the class today, my mind was cleared of everything that was going on. 1204584329ape2

I also think that this would be a good idea too because we are in an American Literature class. It would be like reading a piece of American history from someone that we actually know. I think that would be really cool. I think that we would all have a better understanding of what really went on around the time that Brother Tom was a teenager, just like us. It would be interesting because I'm sure that if one person felt a certain way about something going on in their lives at that time, a thousand other people thought the exact same thing. That's pretty awesome. 1204585573