Today I met with Kate for the second time to discuss where to go from here on my project. Looking over what I have written for memories so far we decided that the topic of my paper has inadvertently changed which happens, if not all the time, a lot. My topic is still focused on camp, but the theme of my paper has changed and ultimately so has my salient point of the paper. While I still don't know that salient point is, and may not until the paper is finished, the theme is now about loss, order and suffering.
I am going to start my essay in media res of the memory of when I was driving to camp in 2010. Then I am going to describe what camp was to me and how that has changed. Next I will incorporate the part about dying and suffering from Terry Tempest Williams' book Refuge. I am going to do some research on Buddha to gain some more insight on the topic and then will use my panic attacks as almost a reflection for what Buddha has to say about death. So basically I will be playing philosopher and using the "Two Kinds of Suffering" piece I wrote, and will talk about Gunner;s passing. I will write that post soon. Pruning the ivy may come into play someplace too. We shall see. I have lots to play with and think about so it will be interesting!
This next post is an example of a braided essay. I figure I have kept you in confusion as to what I am talking about long enough. Amy Irving's piece "Spectral Light" has three different strands; facts and history, philosophy and a single event.
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