Statements of Purpose

What is your motivation in this communication situation?

My motivation is to teach people, and to help myself learn while helping them. It's a series of stories and anecdotes, with true teachings and wisdom passed down for generations combined into a "helping hand" style of book. It may not actually teach you WHAT and HOW, but it will help you begin your journey with more confidence knowing that someone else has done it in a similar fashion.

What do you hope your audience will do or feel or think after they have experienced the communication you produce?

I hope they are at ease, inspired, excited, contemplative, inquisitive enough to look further into the matter, and maybe a little bit braver as well. I hope they don't feel alone or frustrated or confused anymore, and that they can start their own path with clarity and confidence.

What would be the best possible outcome? What would be the worst possible outcome?

The best outcome would be that people are inspired to learn more and share their own stories. The worst possible outcome would be getting ignored or called a hippie wanna-be crazy lady.

What got me wanting to communicate with others?

I know that I learn better and pick up better habits when I am working with others who are going through the same thing I am, whether they are a little ahead of me or a little behind me. Talking it through with people helps. And since recently there seems to be an outpouring of people needing more in their spiritual lives, while not being religious, I feel it is necessary to discuss beliefs and supports we hold dear to us in order to help others. Not foisting it upon them, or shoving it down their throats, but simply saying "Hey this is how it was for me, here are some other ideas on how it works, take what feels right and leave behind what doesn't."

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WHO IS MY AUDIENCE?

Late teens through late twenties, possibly even early thirties+. All genders, sexual orientations, races, and levels of able-bodiedness. Attitudes: yearning to be better people, open-mindedness, curiosity, spiritual but not religious

Free Union

"L'Union libre" by Andre Breton, June 1931

My wife with hair of wood fire
With thoughts of heat lightning
With an hourglass waist
My wife with the waist of an otter in the tiger's teeth
My wife with a mouth of cockade and of a bouquet of stars of the first magnitude
With teeth of spoors of white mice on the white earth
With a tongue of rubbed amber and glass
My wife with a tongue of stabbed host
With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes
With a tongue of unbelievable stone
My wife with eyelashes like the strokes of a child's writings
With eyebrows like the rim of a swallow's nest
My wife with temples like slates of a greenhouse roof
And steam on windowpanes
My wife with shoulders of champagne
And of a fountain with dolphin heads under ice
My wife with matchstick wrists
My wife with fingers of chance and ace of hearts
With fingers of mown hay
My wife with armpits of marten and beechnuts
of Midsummer Night
Of privet and of scalare's nest
With arms of seafoam and of sluice
And of mixing the wheat and the mill
My wife with legs of rocket
With movements of clockwork and despair
My wife with calves of the elder tree pith
My wife with feet of initials
With feet of bunches of keys with feet of Java sparrows drinking
My wife with a neck of unpearled barley
My wife with a throat of Golden Valley
Of rendezvous in the very bed of the torrent
With breasts of night
My wife with breasts of marine molehill
My wife with breasts of crucible of rubies
With breasts like the specter of the rose of the dew
My wife with a belly like a giant claw
My wife with the back of a bird fleeting vertically
With a back of quicksilver
With a back of light
With a nape of rolled stone and wet chalk
And like the fall of a glass just drained
My wife with hips of nacelle
With hips of chandelier and of arrow feathers
And of ribs of white peacock feathers
Of insensitive scales
My wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestos
My wife with buttocks like a swan's back
My wife with buttocks of spring
With a sex of gladiolus
My wife with a sex of placer mining and of platypus
My wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweets
My wife with a sex of mirrors
My wife with eyes full of tears
With eyes of purple panoply and of magnetic needle
My wife with savanna eyes
My wife with eyes of water to drink in prison
My wife with eyes of wood always under the ax
With eyes of water level of level of air earth and fire

Timed Writing: Why do you quote?

Quoting another person's work is a sign of respect. Many poets put another piece of text before their own work, to show that it may have been an inspiration or it follows similar themes. Using quotes also tells the reader that this is not an original idea from the author or blogger or journalist, what have you. To me, it means they either said it best or were the paramount in their field and so should still be treated as thus. It can also be used in mockery or disdain, depending on the views of the writer and the person who first said the quote. It can be used easiest as a jumping off point for agreement or dissent in opinion articles.

Or, as Karla says, "I Win the Internet!"

Assigned Blog: The Art of Summarizing

Using the term "art" very loosely in this context...

If it is an art form, it's one I'm not very good at. Especially for things that are HALF A PAGE. It's already a summary of itself. Nothing I am using for my project is that short, so turning in an actual summary should be a lot easier. I hope. 

Assigned Blog: Clive Thompson on Tweets & Texts

According to Clive Thompson, Twitter, texting, and other miniature versions of communication may actually be helping us comprehend things in the long term. Our need for the New and Now is constantly be satiated (although is that need ever truly filled?), while our desire for knowledge is met through "long take" blogs and essays which can be found online. Most major technology providers recognize that readers want to be able to READ, and not get distracted by ads and other nonsense."Which..." he says, "we are.We talk a lot, then we dive deep."


http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/st_thompson_short_long/