She told the blind man she'd written a poemand he was in it. She told him that she was writing a poemabout what it was like to be an Air Force officer's wife
It’s interesting because it shows how deeply the blind man influenced her inner life. Even years later, she still felt the need to share her emotions and experiences with him through poetry.
On her last day in the office, the blindman asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. Shetold me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, hernose---even her neck!
It surprises me because I never imagined that touching someone’s face could be such an intimate and meaningful act, especially between two people who were not romantically involved.
Imagi~e a womanwho could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of herloved one.
This is troubling because the narrator focuses only on appearance . His shallow view shows a lack of empathy and makes the reader uncomfortable.
In time, sheput it all on a tape and sent the tape to the blind man.
This is interesting because it shows how much she trusted the blind man
She went in and swallowed all thepills and capsules in the medicine chest and washed them downwith a bottle of gin.
It troubles me because it shows how hopeless and desperate she felt in her life.
I didn't tell her that. Maybe I just don't understand poetry.I admit it's not the first thing I reach for when I pick upsomething to read
One might expect him to feel curiosity, or strong emotion reading about it , but he responds with self-reflection. H is emotional is unexpected to me
childhood
The narrator’s wife was already at the of marriage, why did the man still called it “childhood”?
In the poem, she recalled his fingers and the waythey had moved around over her face.
Maybe it’s remembering to her to recall every touches from the blind man. I think it’s hard for a person to recall such concrete memory from a trauma.
even her neck!
I’m really concerned about whether his wife felt offended or something else, but he mentioned she even wanted to write a poem for it, so maybe it’s remembering?
“We can’t change the world, at least not quickly, but we can change our brains. By practicingmindfulness all of us have the capacity to develop a deeper sense of calm.”— Rick Hanson, author,Resilient
focusing on ourself first, rather than trying to make some difference in this world. It is significant to have good mindset and develop calmness first to be ready to deal with tasks.
The mosteffective way to combat procrastination is to use time and project management strategies such as schedules,goal setting, and other techniques to get tasks accomplished in a timely manner.
It is truly important to schedule tasks and break the tasks into smaller pieces, in order to finish work step by step. Just like the quote which professor mentioned in class : "You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
The first useful concept is the idea of short assignments. Oftenwhen you sit down to write, what you have in mind is anautobiographical novel about your childhood
9/30 Interesting : This often happens to me whether im writting an essay or paragraph with a childhood topic.
So you get up and do your morning things, and one thingleads to another, and eventually, at nine, you find yourself backat the desk, staring blankly at the pages you filled yesterday.
9/30 Interesting : This line relates to things we do in our daily, when you feel like you doing lot of things but actually not.
Because for some of us, books are as important as almostanything else on earth.
9/30 Surprising : This mean books means the world to most writers, i didn't even know about that !
Writing can give you what having a baby can giveyou: it can get you to start paying attention, can help yousoften, can wake you up
Yes, but there’s a little bit of different with writing and a baby. For example, you can rewrite the essay but you can’t rebirth a baby.
It is a matter ofpersistence ~nd faith and hard work. So you might as welljust go ahead and get starteq
Yes, and I think the most difficult part is to start doing a thing.
Don't worry if what you write is no good,because no one is going to see it.
9/30 Interesting: Since I first starting writing, my teacher always wants me to present the best content I can.
n, I couldn't think of a single restaurantwhere I'd ever actually eate
9/30 Surprising: I thought it’s command to remember the restaurant I’ve been to, until I read this sentence and find out that I can’t even remembered which restaurant I’ve been to yesterday.
"I don't even know where to start,
9/30 Troubling: It’s hard for me to start writing an essay, and I think the beginning is the most difficult thing for me.
An extraordinary burglary — attended by very singular circumstances, and perpetrated by a curious felon — occurred in this town on Monday night.
I think thta's interesting that the writer describe felon "curious".