Sunday, December 7, 2008
Nature
I sat down in my backyard next to a tree. It was around 3 o'clock and pretty chilly and gloomy out. Right away I noticed you could hear everything. The breaking of branches, the talking of your neighbors, the airplanes overhead. I must've heard 4 or 5 airplanes pass over my house but I couldn't see them because of how cloudy it was. I heard the wind the clearest though. When it was silent, I would hear the wind rustling through the treees. The wind made branches move and leaves were falling every so often nearby me. The neighbors cat came over to me on the ground and purred around my legs for about 5 minutes then dashed off toward a plant behind me for whatever reason cats like to dash. It was cool just sitting outside listening to everything. My body was at peace with nature. I had no distractions and no worries. It was like I was listening to Bob Marley. It was peaceful and cool outside. There was no screaming of voices and honking of cars. Just the wind and leaves blowing away and the jingling of the cats coller. The grass was cold that I was sitting on probably because it was wet from the sprinklers. I saw the plants on the other side of the chain fence moving because some bird or squirrel was crawling around in it. It was a little eerie how well you noticed things. I heard every sound there was to hear: branches crackling, chimes from the chime thing outide my parents room, the neighbors talking outside, a bird chirping on the tree across from me, it was pretty intense. I felt like I was in Into the Wild, except not as gnarly as that kid.
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I smiled the entire way through this essay. Your honest description of sitting out with nature was pleasant and very real. And the connection to Bob Marley was funny, but also very fitting in a peculiar way. It's weird, isn't it, how much you notice and how acute your sense become when you sit with nature. I think part of that comes from the fact that our senses and intuition our closer to nature than our minds are. Thus, when we sit with nature, we are more apt to just feel and experience it, regardless of whether it is the wind in the plants or the neighbor's cat. The fact that you noticed so many things is a further testament to this. I think it might be more natural for us to not try to think our way through life, but to just take it as it comes and experience as much as we can in the meantime, like you sitting in your yard. More than anything else, your essay set a cheerful, pleasant scene that I enjoyed being a part of as I read. Also, ask your neighbors for me how they managed to get their cat to wear a collar. My cat is something of a collar-Houdini…
Jesse JG, I liked your Nature post because I felt like I was right there with you. I really envisioned myself sitting there next to you hearing those noises and watching that cat, that I know you dislike so much, walk by in its sly manner. I felt you were very descriptive and I recognized your writing style by the comments on Bob Marley and the guy from into the while being gnarly. Good job, JJG! :)
I loved this. I felt like i was there...in a non stalker way. I don't know if it was the way you described every little detail or what, but I think Emerson would have been proud. The whole experience sounded really calming, and completely in touch with nature and all of its elements. I also experienced the slightly eery feeling of noticing every little thing taking place around me. I feel like sometimes we get so caught up in other stuff, that we forget how many simple little things are taking place. For example the rustling of a branch or the crashing of waves. When you do this experiment it's really hard to take these daily happenings for granted.
Hey Jesse, I really liked your essay on Nature. I liked how you described everything and it all blended together very well. I also liked your comments about me( Alexander Supertramp) in their and how you compared yourself to him. In all, great Essay.
Watson
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