Friday, September 30, 2011

Night of Hunters


Sweeping and lovely are my first impressions of Tori’s current epic. Just as in Scarlet’s Walk, Night of Hunters moves away from personal confession and into the realm of storytelling. Storytelling at its best uses fiction and myth to reveal a deeper truth and can at times be even more cathartic than pure confessional. Classical themes and modern song create a work of staggering beauty, this album is a quick reminder to why she has stood the test of time.

According to Amos, Night of Hunters’ ''protagonist is a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship. In the course of one night she goes through an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself.'' On her new album, Amos asks her audience to reinitiate itself once more, as she reinvents herself yet again—this time, in the guise of what she always already was: a true virtuosa, with all the artfulness, and preciousness, that term implies.
 


''That is not my Blood on the bedroom floor….That is not the Glass that I threw before''.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011


''I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars''.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

''Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words''.

Saturday, September 24, 2011


''There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still''.

Friday, September 23, 2011

''Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts''.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

''Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams''.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Higher Ground


''I know this road
Never seen it before
I know what lies behind unopened doors
I saw the signs from the distant shore
That I couldn't ignore...
I'm heading for higher ground.''

Saturday, September 17, 2011

''I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you''.

Friday, September 16, 2011

''He forgot to remember I can never get outta here...now i'm falling spiral down...falling six feet to the ground
....do anything to hear me scream.....falling spiral down in my dreams''.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

''Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other''.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011



''You can imitate all you want, but you'll never be me''...

Darkness

 ''We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen''.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

''Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions''.


''Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love''.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends.....


In Romeo and Juliet Friar Lawrence says "These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder," (Act 2,Scene 6 ). As we see in the play the friars words “violent delights have violent ends”, has a very significant meaning to the story where things that are started violently have often have violent ends. Rather than blaming fate for all this gloom and doom, he is clearly telling an irrational Romeo, that his actions will be the cause of his "violent ends". Although Romeo has listened to Friar Lawrence's advice, he is still infatuated with the belief that fate is in control. Friar Lawrence is right in saying that Romeo's actions are controlling the situation, but Romeo fails to see that his actions control his fate.
What a lesson we can learn if we ponder on this story. Many like Romeo blame their predicament on fate or others, even though it is obviously in consequence of their actions.

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

''Velvet drapes, glowing candles...
Silent whispers of words inside of my head..
The night that comes, it waits for me...
Lifts me to the ending of another day....I'm haunted''. L.C.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Faster......

''I can feel that you’ve mezmerized my heart.
I feel so free.
I’m alive, I’m breaking out.
I won’t give in, cause I’m proud of all my scars.
And I can see I’ve been wasting too much time''.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011


''A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world''.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Coupon Acronyms


Coupon Acronyms
 
BOGO - Buy One Get One
ECB - Extra Care Bucks
MIR - Mail In Rebate
OOP - Out of Pocket
P&G - Procter and Gamble
Peelie - On Package
RP- Red Plum
RR - Register Reward
SS - Smart Source
WYB - When you buy

Friday, September 2, 2011

Ballenger




''Inquiry-based investigations depend upon your willingness to suspend judgment long enough to discover what you think.” (B.Ballenger)


Ballenger asks us to suspend judgment until you see what you come up with. “One of the things college teaches is critical thinking—the instinct to pause and consider before rushing to judgment. I’ve learned not to automatically believe in the validity of what an author is saying,” states Ballenger (Ballenger 76).  To understand how a problem works and how has it arisen, means suspending judgment to defer your certainty while you explore doubt and new possibilities. Stopping to adopt a new point of view, and reflect from this new vantage point and adopt a broader reference frame. Allowing inquiry to displace certainty makes you willing to disclose your own doubts. With a curious attitude you can identify and examine your assumptions and theirs. Being open to explore alternative meanings and motives, will integrate new ideas and reject polarized thinking.

Knowing that there can be inaccuracies in printed, I tend to search for further supporting information for the base of my research. “A good researcher always takes a skeptical view of claims made in print; she should be even more wary of claims made in Internet documents,” states Ballenger (Ballenger 82).  I begin to search for other sources of information that compliment my original source but are not sited together. To me, it is important to find material that is essentially the same but with different authors, written as someone who has experienced the subject matter. This helps clarify the information, making each source have a level of credibility. When working the assignments for this class, I keep with the idea of constant research to solidify the given information, so as to use quality sources. This ensures that I do not have a conflicting view in my writing about a subject and assures me that I have the right source of information.



Works Cited:
Ballenger, Bruce. Ballenger, Bruce. The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers. Pearson Education, Inc., 2009.