English 307

Wow! I had never realized before what an amazing compilation of voices and words was here all along on this Internet archive. Perhaps I should have read and done this response to everyone’s blogs before I wrote my response to blogging in general. I may likely have come up with a different story to tell. However I may feel about keeping a blog myself (and everyone now sees how little attention I have dedicated to it) it has been a wonderful experience to read the work of everyone else! I really now wish that we had been asked to keep up with reading each post as we posted them. Some of the insights that I read of classmates’ reading responses where things that we never really got around to in class discussion and things that I would have loved to have read while we were wrestling with those issues. Antonia’s post on the race assignment jumps to mind. At one point she makes the comment that her lack of racial awareness when writing allows her to focus on other themes. I read that and, remembering have struggled to articulate exactly why I don’t see it as important to my own writing to be focused on such issues, thought to myself, “Yes! That’s it!” Many of the responses to the Narcissism essay were deep reflections and exciting glimpses into the minds of their authors. Much of the rich understanding that I gained from reading all of the blogs was simply an understanding of the unique way in each the mind of each of my fellow writers works.

One of the most rewarding part of reading these posts has come as a direct result of waiting until the last minute (my brothers birthday was this weekend and, despite all of my most noble intentions of getting this finished sooner, my weekend filled up and placed me here, writing this now just before it is due). Because of this, though, I have had the opportunity to read most everyone else’s reflections on all of the other blogs. This, I have to say, was my favorite part of most of the blogs! Many, such as Ashley M. and Brandon, wrote with a sense of ending, accomplishment, and closure. These were beautiful reflections on our class for this past semester and demonstrate a special unity that we found in our group of students and Dr. A. This we may have missed altogether if we had not all had this last assignment to sit down and reflect upon all that has transpired both in the individual and in our group as a whole. Though I do not intend to become a blogger, or to put any more effort into this online venture than is required of me, it is a special thing that we now have of all of the deep, revealing thoughts and words of each our classmates; this I can now see, and I am wonderfully blessed to have it!