Blogging Around Número Dos

First post of 2013! 

Jordan's blog post about her intellectual challenge with close-mindedness. She describes effects of being close-minded and why she wishes to change. 

Jordan, you address a challenge that I think a lot of us face. I don't think close-minded necessarily means being pessimistic, so don't fret! But I do agree that being open-minded perspectives usually lead to happiness. Being able to see a subject in it's entirety places less emphasis on the negatives, and leads to less aggravation. We can't know everything about our world, no matter how much we all admit to ourselves that we know best. When it comes to learning, lets be honest: it's hard to buckle down and admit that what we're learning will actually be beneficial to our intellectual experience. It comes down to our guiding question: "To what degree do I understand that which I'm about to reject?" As we face an intellectual challenge, it's easier to shut down. But if we focus on opening our minds we can see far beyond the challenge. Great post!

Kira's post reflecting on steps to writing her poem. She tells the story behind her poem and steps she took to make an emotional investment in the poem. 

I love the backstory to your poem, Kira! I really like the line, "Important moments do not equal important events".  Milestones in our lives are only milestones because of the journey it took to get there. And journeys are composed of little snippets of memories that may be simple or seemingly worthless, but are unique only to us. We tend to get caught up in the big things and don't stop to appreciate the little ones, people we've met, insights we've heard, the beginning to a love story like the one in your poem. Buried in those things are our emotions. I like that you took something personal to someone else and invested an emotional connection in it, making it personal to you too. Great post, great poem.