A few weekends ago, my mom flew in to visit. During her stay, we went to the Carlos Museum, something I had been meaning to do in light of the refresh exhibits. Of the pieces on display, both her and I found the South American works incredibly interesting. The various effigies and sculptures, especially the…
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Western Cosmologies
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In the selected chapters composing our reading of The Circumference of Home, Kurt Hoelting expresses his surroundings in both poetic and objective dialects. Throughout the reading, it is made especially clear that his appreciation of the scenery grows from many aspects of his experience, as the phrasing of his participation moves between vivid descriptions of the setting…
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Edward Abbey- Eclipse/Totality
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Within Desert Solitaire’s first chapter, Edward Abbey describes an initial experience of the overwhelming scenery composing Arches national park. Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhuman spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space. I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, possess it all,…
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Discussion Analysis: Differing Viewpoints on Science
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During a recent night out with friends, I ended up getting into a fairly involved discussion with a friend over the likeness of science and religion, particularly in regarding science as a system of belief akin to traditional religions. While my friend and I had very different viewpoints, our difficulty wasn’t in addressing the points…
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Recollected Materials
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In this entry, I wanted to explore the creation of meaningful places by recombining photos taken from my previous Collected Materials post with scenes from favorite spots within my hometown, Astoria, Oregon.
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Hesse, Buddha, and Transformation of Knowledge
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Recently, I finished reading Hermann Hesse’s novel Siddhartha, which recounts a man’s search for an understanding of life and existence. The plot weaves through Siddhartha’s progressive modes of seeking fulfillment and meaning, beginning with his ascetic practice with the Samanas, then his embrace of worldly pleasures and the materialistic life of a merchant, eventually finding…
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Collected Materials
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The following are some photos taken of the spot I’ve chosen and used as my place for this course.
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Street Skating and Place Making
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Trading profundity for profanity and self-transformation for self-destruction, skateboarding is spiritual place-making for misfits and burnouts. Reduced to its core, skating is a bunch of kids put in an environment they had no hand in shaping, one that isn’t making any room for them, and imposing their own sense of place by compounding an exclusively…
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Reflection on Genesis
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This post is a reflective entry focusing on my experience of reading the two stories assigned for Genesis, particularly focusing on how my own reactions to the text reflect my value system ascribed to natural settings. In reading Genesis, I was continually taken aback by the details of the first account of creation, namely in…
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Sense of Touch
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In visiting my place this week, I chose to highlight my sense of touch. During the late afternoon, I visited my place to take a quick coffee break while my experiment in the physiology lab underwent a timed enzyme reaction. It was a warm day, but it was very evident that summer was beginning to…
