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This is Art Mr.White

 What is Art? In my opinion this is a pretty hard question to answer, because there's just so many ways to answer. When I think of Art, I think of more than just oily paintings with strange looking people or beautiful scenery on them. I think of Art as everything around us. From Houses to roads, to AC generators, and even beautifully mowed lawns (the ones where the lines are really visible). I think that of art. Every single invention from the time that man discovered fire to when Scientists thought it was a good idea to spend their time creating a new color instead of anything else useful (seriously was there nothing else better to do?). I think that when I think of Art. When I go to museums to look at the intricate sculptures, to the cool car shows in Detroit, to even concerts. Art surrounds me. Art is everywhere. But I really haven't answered the main question have I? What is Art? That is the question, the truth is, its the friends we made along the way.  JK Let me actually...
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The 10 body problem

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 10 years is more than enough time to read at least 10 books. The problem is finding actually interesting books I would want to read. This list may change depending on whether I actually have the motivation to read all these or if I deviate from the list and find something better, but is what I would read in the next 10 years.                     2025:     The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin Sci-fi novel about a Chinese physicist who explores the strange suicides of her coworkers. She figures out that an alien civilization was behind it, asking for help as their own planet is within a unstable orbital patter between 3 suns. I personally love sci fi novels and think this one would help me with critical thinking through tough challenges similar to the 3 body problem                      2026: Atomic Habits - James Clear  Relatively corny choice 💔...
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Most underrated character

 The play English by Sanaz Toossi is a play about the struggle with ones identity When trying to become fluent in another language. The overarching theme highlights that when trying to learn a new language like English, people often lose the ability to express themselves and are better understood in their native tongue. This is shown frequently with characters like Elham and Roya who believe they are leaving a part of themselves behind when they try to attempt English for others. One character that stuck with ,however, was Omid. With his fluency in English, he was easily the best English speaking person in the room, Yet even then he is often misunderstood in the classroom.  Omid initially joined the classroom in order to gain confidence in his own language skills despite his fluency in English. He is a complex and odd character because despite being the best speaking one there, he still is not convinced that he is fluent enough in English and therefore requires the self confid...
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I feel so "Dungeon Synth Noir"

 "The myth of Music" was one of the poems we did last week or the week before during the Harkness and to me it seemed like the most interesting one. What made it strangely interesting to me was how the speaker described her memories of her family and her father through music, referencing various instruments and genres of music such as jazz. In my interpretation of the poem, there seems to be parallels between her emotions and the music she describes. Her happy childhood memories are tied with jazz music. Once more, she describes how the memories were like songs without lyrics that can still be sung. What that meant to me was that those memories may not have had a straightforward purpose or meaning, but they were meaningful to her. Now, that previous sentence may not have made a lot of sense, but what I'm trying to transition into is a bigger meaning to this entire poem.      To me the entire poem is an example of how differently people view their own emotions. When p...
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Reset character

 The theme of becoming usually expands on the fact that at one point everyone will start to develop into their true selves and find their real meaning. But I would respectfully disagree. Pushing this idea to people is almost like telling them that you'll stop growing or changing one day. The "grow up" is often used to describe children as they develop into adulthood, but I think it deserves a somewhat different meaning. Realistically, no one stops growing since everyone makes mistakes and learns from them, and to say at one point you stop doing all of that is absurd. To me, growing up is changing aspects of your life in which you want a different way. Some people wish to remain children, so they remain children. Others may want to become more organized or take on a new way of thinking. To give perspective, it's kind of like asking someone to find a suitable career for themselves and forcing them to work in that field until they die. This isn't the case for most pe...
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give me two turtle doves

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 What's the best gift in the 12 days of Christmas? I'm going to just say it; It has to be the two European turtle doves given on day 2. I'm not even going to sugar coat it, but this to me seems like the very best option given everything else and excluding the 5 gold rings.           First off, the other options given are kind of bad. "eight maids a milking"? Milking what? What would I even do with EIGHT MAIDS MILKING something. I don't think there is much to expand on here.  "6 geese a laying"? I get enough deer poop in my back yard already, I DO NOT want geese eggs too 🙏.  I searched it up and for the "ten lords a leaping" YOUR supposed to give them gifts. Unless I was misinformed, I feel like that would be an obvious no.  "12 drummers drumming" and " 11 pipers piping" don't even sound that bad of options, but I don't a personal band while Spotify exists (12 days of Spotify premium would be nice).         ...
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Identity Fraud

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  My book club book was “The Leavers” by Lisa Ko, which followed the life of a boy named Deming. Deming is a Chinese American immigrant whose mother was deported early in the book. Although his mother’s absence isn’t necessarily intentional, Deming grows up feeling he must constantly work for others’ approval. He becomes unfamiliar with unconditional love, which is replaced with this sense of needing to earn his place with others to be accepted.  Although Deming’s oddly specific situation served as a catalyst for most of these depressive feelings, his struggle to belong is relatable. Belonging can feel like a warm welcome or a heavyweight. Depending on where we’re trying to fit in, it can either be comforting or a burden/strain on our own character. The latter is what I see with Deming where he tries to contort himself to fit in groups that may not fully accept him.  I feel as though this theme is present beyond even the novel. People are often trying to find what is ...
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