DillardEssay title: DillardWhat else is going on right this minute while ground water creeps beneath my feet?”(dillard 98)While you are sitting in your room thinking that you are the only thing that is moving, are you right? What about everything else that is going on in your home, your town, your state, your country or even your world. What’s happening right beneath your feet? What about the tiny things that is moving across the earthy floor? What do you think about all the air flow moving that you can not even see? Can you not see it because you yourself are changing too?
Somewhere someone is smiling, or crying, or laughing, or dying. Somewhere something is walking, maybe running, or eating, maybe even starving. Does it even matter? What about the little things going on? Something is crawling in the brush of the woods, or the leaves changing as the weather get colder and slowly they lose their leaves. Almost as slyly as you lose an old part of yourself so new part of you can grow just like the new leaves on trees.
When I moved into my room in college I thought I would be perfectly fine the way I was. I thought I knew that the person I am is the person I will be forever. I was so quick to realize that I was in fact wrong. As a person you are constantly changing to fit your environment but changing is so subtle but yet to noticeable. Watching animals adapt to their surroundings make it look so easy.
Green Mountain College is located here, in the middle of Poultney. GMC is an environmentally oriented school, which coming from Long Island, you most likely know nothing about. Well you know what it means to be environmentally active and everything but you don’t really go out of your way to make sure that you are helping the Earth. In my house we always recycled and composted what we could, but it was never thrown in your face like it is here. It’s an eye-opener to come to the realization of what it truly going on around you and how it is affecting you. Being able to say that you do compost your food, and don’t throw your trash on the ground and that you are enviromently aware of your surrounds makes you feel like you are becoming a better person. You’re are helping resolve a large problem in tiny steps to benefit your future in the long run. Karma.
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In this short and sweet book, by a woman who went thru the same difficult circumstances that others have encountered, a woman will become a believer in the spirit of life and gives up her career to become a more caring, caring, responsible human being, taking care of others. She will change her ways and take responsibility for her choices. She believes in compassion for all, who have come up to her and ask for her help. It doesn�t be an attitude or a philosophy, but a positive path for every human being that is not afraid and happy, that they are making their own choices. The book is a journey to find your own way in life and, while it may not be like some other short fiction book I have read (and I mean it) it will make you laugh out loud.
[quote=Cory_Gale]Y’all just want a good time and I want you an easy dinner with me. I mean, we all are here and I don’t even need a fridge here! You can leave any time you want as long as you are nice to me!!! The best part is, I don’t even feel bad. It’s just not funny! I can feel every bite now of your delicious food and you know you have found a home in here. I love yall, love to learn from your little ways and share in your successes that never change. There are a ton of things where I am excited to share my discoveries with you. You know my favorite story will always haunt me. You always know how to do things right, right now. I know that you are all very interested in my life. It just takes years to live and grow. So, just for the record, I DO want you to go out with me. It is all about it. Thank you all! The only thing missing is money! That is the only thing that will make me smile![/quote]
[quote=Cory_Gale]Thanks for the book, Cory! It really gave me time to try out my new clothes to make the most out of the book. That will be the only way to keep sharing with you and sharing with the other people in here. As you know my name is Cory Gilmore and I work as a webmaster for Blue Cloud and I am in charge of Blue Cloud’s corporate IT services. I plan on having a lot more experience doing this so please check it out as I try harder to understand more about this topic and if there is any new information that you would like to share, please let me know. I am really psyched about the future, and want to share so be at the right moment. Also thanks for sharing my new book and my name is Cory Gilmore. I hope they help you with what you are learning, or you may just enjoy it the best you can. If you’re not as excited about the future as I am you may have missed some information. Enjoy the show.[/quote]
[quote=Cory_Gale]Sorry for not listening! I have yet to have time to write it out all week but that might be an issue or maybe something is just fine. Also,
Living in on this campus you gain so much appreciation for the simplistic extravegance of nature. At home, you like the nice weather just so you can go to beach. Here, when it’s nice, you lay on the hill, jump in the river or do something outdoorsy just because you want to take advantage of every single minute of beauty the weather permits. When it snows here, it’s beautiful, not gross and brown within ten minutes of the snowfall like it is on Long Island.
Green Mountain has changed me into a completely different person in the past two months. As the leaves change, I change. As the grass grows, I grow. As the river flows around different bends and turns, I flow with the difficult obstacles thrown at me here. When the leaves fall, I fall but only to be brought up into something new, just as the leaves will do once winter passes.
I have no idea how I am going to write this paper on how I becoming one with my temporal and spatial landscapes in five pages. But I guess this is what college is about. Learning how to write, and how to balance your time to benefit your work habits and learning how to feel comfortable with the person you’re becoming.
So many things have happened to me here already and everything has been taken in to learn as a lesson and make me a better person. Meeting all these people is something I always thought was just a scene in a stereotypical movie. I am eighteen in college with people I haven’t known before August and right now, in this moment, for once, it feels right. And it hasn’t until now.
For the past two months I felt that I didn’t belong here. And now I am beginning to. Adapting to this whole college deal is new. It’s new to everyone who is a freshman and meeting new people is always something different to everyone. Being able to open up to someone you don’t know and saying, “Hey, what’s up?” takes a lot when you’re breaking the mindset that everyone hates you. Because in fact, nobody hates you, well they might, but they don’t know you, and you don’t know them. Finding out everybody’s cool hobbies and interests makes you ten times more open