Joyas Voladores

The essay, Joydas Voladoras, confused me the first few times I read it. After I read it several times, the piece of writing gained some meaning to me. The meaning I took was that no matter what size the heart is it will one day be broken. I think the essay is discouraging, because it basically says that everyone and everything is alone. It makes me think of times the heart is greatly affected in a positive or negative way. My favorite line was the last sentence because it shows that all the work someone can put in to protecting the heart can come crumbling down at the most powerful and simple touches of love. "You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words I have something to tell you, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in a thicket of your hair, the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children."

What's Worth Knowing?

People have their own opinions on what is worth knowing. In my opinion, a lot of the knowledge that is worthy is not taught in school. The core classes, like math and English teach you to succeed in career. However, they don't teach you how to make it through the everyday life. To some people the important things to know are the things that are useful in difficult times in life. Like said in the poem, knowing what to say to a person dying isn't taught in school. This is a time that almost everyone has to face at least once in their life. The response to dying person would be very useful and worth knowing. Knowing how to cook is knowledge worth learning. If you go to college and dorm, you will save a lot of money by cooking instead of eating out everyday. Survival skills are also another thing worth knowing. For example, knowing that when you are in a blackout if you have a gas stove or fireplace they can still work. To light the flame on the stove you turn the gas on, take a lighter and light it. I think survival skills are one of the most important things to know. Most people don't know what's worth knowing until you need the information.

Waste Land Documentry Response

The Waste Land movie was a really good movie. The most memorable part of the movie for me was when they went to the art gallery to see the paintings they made. This part made me realize how much something so meaningless to others is to the people who were a part of it. I know when I go to an art museum I am not that excited to look at the art work, unlike the garbage pickers. They were full of excitement and were overcome with emotions, when the average person can walk by the same painting with no emotion. I learned that you don't need much to live a happy life. The catadores from the movie all have very little, some will live their life in sadness, but instead they make happiness from what they have. I will take away to be grateful for what you have, because many people in the world have little of we have like shown in the movie.

I think the people filmed feel overwhelmed from their lives being blown-up and shown to the world. I think they are happy to be able to show others what they have and what they do daily because they can hope better will come from the acknowledgement of their struggles. I think they fell grateful for being given the opportunity to have better. Because of the movie, the people got money they probably never imagined from garbage artwork. They visited a museum hanging their faces of trash. Having their everyday lives be blown brought a wave of emotions to everyone.

If I was given the option to be the subject in the film I would be a bit hesitant to agree to it. I would think twice about sharing my life to everyone. Today I try to limit the amount of information I put the web about myself, because some people who have access to the web may be able to copy my identity. I wouldn't feel safe having so many people know my life. There isn't much in my life that I would think could create such a grand masterpiece like in the movie. However, I bake a lot of desserts, mostly cupcakes, which could probably be made into some sort of artwork if attempted. I don't encounter the struggles that the catadores in the movie did, making my life less of a surprise to people.

Delicate

A snowglobe requires delicate care so it doesn't break.

Outside

This is a picture of the school flag and berries on a tree.

The Sky

The Skyline

This is a picture of the Los Angeles skyline on January 26, 2013 with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background. I chose this picture because the mountains looking like it's floating on top caught my attention. The small peek and the lower part of the mountain might be missed at a first glance. This picture tells the story of how the landscape changes within a small area. In the bottom of the picture is the more natural area with trees, in the middle is the city life with many building and at the top has the least amount of people in the high mountains. This picture reminds me of the time my family and I went to Hawaii. We were driving towards a mountain and it looked like the mountain and the sky were connected. This picture brought me back to the memories I had in Hawaii. My question inspired from the picture is: can the people on the mountain reach out and touch the cloud?

Looking In

This is a picture of a flower, in which people look in to.