Cemetery Field Trip

I went to the Tiger Flower Cemetery Complex for this Field trip; Intro to Lit. and i stayed for at least 30 min to be honest i had a really had time with this trip, i felt really uncomfortable and a little creeped out. i have only been to a cemetery once before this time to visit my Uncle. i though i would be fine on this trip but it was not as easy as i thought. I do get what we where doing and where it was heading because of the book but i still not to satisfied with this trip.

A Grief Observed

It seems as a society we as people need to go through tragic trials in our lives to be shaken or moved out of our current states. And death is definitely one to either make or break a person. I personally have not experienced a close family member to pass away, well I mean I have but I was so young and it didn’t affect me the way I though death should affect someone..  well now after writing this statement, how should one take death? Yet why is there a common emotion to have but at the same time we all have very different emotions and experience death  all in our own way. Despite that fact that its the same situation; we lose a love one. Its not that I was too young and didn’t remember my Uncle because I remember him in my life very well. but when my mom’s brother passed away suddenly at a very early age. I can even remember the pain my mother went through, it seemed like a year she grieved . To experience a pain like that, you can’t help but go with the flow of your life being rearranged in a way that can bloom open new seasons for you or keep you in the dark. For class we read the book A Grief Observed by C.S.Lewis; His journal, reflection, his grievances and feeling toward God about his wife’s death. Its easy to put the hurt that we are feeling on someone and most of the time its God, but I believe everything happens for a reason and God maps out our lives and things that we don’t understand or cant see why they are happening God knows. God used my Uncle’s death to bring people to him when he took his last breath. I would go into detail about what happened but even though I was young and then it didn’t affect me but now it still does. But I know through anything God can make it good.

Going into Deeper Thought

I really enjoyed class on Tuesday! I mean not only were we not in a class setting but we got to EAT a whole meal during class. A.M.A.Z.I.N.G :) Ever since I been in this class I’m really starting to like and slowly understanding Literature. I been able to observe and unwrap all the different areas of what literature really is and how it’s around us daily and its only been a few weeks of school. Last class meaning was great not only did I learn a little more about the different types of literature that my peers shared but I also got to meet new people and learn about them through literature… by the way they think or even feelings toward literature. I defiantly shared common feelings with them. Also I was able to gain new knowledge or look at sustain pieces of literature differently then I had seen it before. They brought new insight and perspective.


The literature that I brought to class was lyrics titled Lighthouse by Hope and my group came to soo many conclusions on what we think the song means. Was sure if she was talking about God or her inner self. But in the end one of my peers made a great statement reminding us that not all literature was meant to have a direct meaning. So we came to the conclusion that the song would fit with that person the way they needed it to fit to their lives.. I mean we bring everything back to us to compare with because we use what we experience to help direct our answer or not even answers but.. ummm yeah..you know.. I hope just cant quite find the words for that.. but it was kind of left general so that who ever read it would read it differently and so if they were having a rough time with their boyfriend they might see it as more of a love song but if they are struggling with their walk with God they might see the song differently than the lovers. So its left open for you to make the choice of what literature means to you.
  sorry if this blog didn't really flow.

Don't Let The Beat Fool You!

In class we heard this folk song about a week or so ago. I thought it was a joke and defiantly not a style that I like listening to but once we got the lyrics and begain to sing along, ( thanks boys for entertaning me with the echo of the end of just about every line) :) dissect, an analyze, the song I begain to get the deeper meaning of what we are singing. Like I notice she blow his head off and goes to the funeral but yet no where does it talk about her going to jail or getting in trouble, and it says there is no moral so….. its like its saying there is no good in men and its like every one expects it.. he had it coming.


So may times we listen to music dancing in our seats, nodding our heads and loving the sick beat. and AMAZINGLY… JUST after listing to it once or twice we already know the words and singing along with it. But not really knowing what we are self consciously sing. WHY? Is it so easy for us to memorize the thing that are not so good for us but we can't memorize our school work with such ease. But going back to the actual text it was about a couple and Johnny cheated and Frankie killed him. Just like the music today it talks about all the negative things that happens in the world but we really can’t hear it cause we are deaf to the rhythm and beats of the songs we listen to.

We also went over a skit "Sure Thing" and this skit I enjoyed at first I was not to sure and though it was a little interesting just like the song haha but as we kept reading I be gain to understand that the seen was changing and showing you new ways on which it could be acted out ,every time the bell rang. Don’t you wish you had a bell in life you could ring, every time you wanted to change your seen.. redo that moment or saying. If Life could be that simple… maybe there would be less drama in the world. I’m sure that Johnny if he could, would wish to ring his bell and had never cheated on Frankie.. but clearly he had no bell to ring because Frankie pulled out her old forty four.

Marital Bliss

LOVE … What is it? It’s a word that is thrown around carelessly, we have soo many ways and people telling us what love is. We get it from poems, movies, songs, romantic novels, I mean the list goes on. But really what is love? Think about what does it mean to you? To me love is strong , unconditional, sacrificial, selfless, and in my world everlasting. But true love is patience, it is kind, it never falis,  it is true, its the one thing that will always change you.


I read a narrative story, “What We talk about When We talk about love” it’s a story about 4 characters who have there own thoughts, views, and experiences on what love is. From physical abuse being love, to Marital Bliss..” still in the Honeymoon stage” all over a bottle of gin.

So when the honey moon is over – these test comes and u have no choice but to get real. The tests come in all forms. Getting real requires self searching and opening up like u never have before- but un like the characters they drink and put on a front about their year and half marriage.

We spend alot of time in fairyland and it starts at an early age- and even in adult hood we play out our ideas of what the fairy tale should be and we are disappointed when things go off script! The transition from La La Land to reality challenges you to really love your mate and to really give to your relationship. I believe that God created love and marriage to teach us hard lessons and also to give  us a joy like nothing else. Love is great and marriage is beautiful but why don't the fairy tales talk about the trying times that will inevitably come? why dont they teach us how to listen well? forgive completely? and sacrifice endlessly?