having a cup of tea‚ waiting in line or stuck in traffic. This in turn‚ helps to initiate my desire to work the shifts and listen actively to the people I may encounter during these shifts. Lucas mentioned also that your mind and brain are natural wanderers and this is a good thing. These beneficial brain changes as seen in the neuroscience research on mindfulness are thought to be promoted in large part by the act of noticing that your mind has wandered and to bring it back. According to Ed Halliwell
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them gifts. Dido shows curiosty at the end of the first book‚ when she asked Aeneas to tell her "about the treachery of the Greeks‚ the sufferings of your people and your own wanderings‚ for this is now the seventh summer that has carried you as a wanderer over every land and
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I’m not the kind to read sad stories about someones life. I praise Ishmael Beah‚ the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy solider. He put the unthinkable into words that were carefully crafted in order to make them perfectly flow from the text‚ to my head. The boy who was between the ages of 12 & 16 at the time‚ lost everything he thought would be his forever. His village was attacked by a notorious group‚ his parents were killed and his childhood was stolen from him. At his age‚ he never
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Of the three poems The Seafarer‚ The Wanderer‚ and The Wife’s Lament‚ The Seafarer is the best poem. The Seafarer is about a man working at sea. The author describes his sadness about working at the sea in the cold. In The Seafarer the author describes his sadness about his situation makes this the best poem. I can really imagine what he describes. The purpose of the Seafarer is to tell his story about his need for money. He describes that he misses the way life used to be. His focus shifts to how
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Herman Melville and Billy Budd Herman Melville was born on August 1‚ 1819 in New York City. He was born to Allan and Maria Melvill (Meltzer 9). Herman grew up in a family who struggled to make enough money. The family moved around trying to run a profitable business. Allan’s efforts to feed his family did pay off but led to his death. Allan Melvill passed away in 1832 (Baym 2256). Herman faced many difficulties in finding jobs during the Panic of 1837 and eventually ended up going on voyages abroad
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Archaeology - W. H. Auden The archaeologist’s spade delves into dwellings vacancied long ago‚ unearthing evidence of life-ways no one would dream of leading now‚ concerning which he has not much to say that he can prove: the lucky man! Knowledge may have its purposes‚ but guessing is always more fun than knowing. We do know that Man‚ from fear or affection‚ has always graved His dead. What disastered a city‚ volcanic effusion‚ fluvial outrage‚ or a human horde‚
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love was the most important part of anyone’s life. He would say “ without love‚ we are birds without wings.” During our 5th Tuesday together‚ Morrie and I talked about the importance of family‚ and he quoted the great American poet‚ W.H. Auden‚ who said‚ “love each other‚ or perish.” This became Morrie’s mantra. He had unconditional
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for men. Many tend to comprehend masculinity as a necessity‚ without it there is no purpose of being called a “man”. In Toni Morrison’s Beloved‚ the protagonist; Paul D‚ is portrayed as a kind and meditative personality‚ he lived a life of a lonely wanderer‚ someone so unsettled that he cannot really develop as a man. Originally‚ his memories at Sweet Home cause questions to arise in his mind pertaining to his manhood because of all the situations that made him feel like he was diminished and was not
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He weathered crisises on land and storms at sea. Lacking even a compass’ guidance‚ he sailed over a thousand miles to a new continent. Who was this purpetual wanderer? Meet Leif Erikson‚ the first European to reach America. Leif grew up on a Greenland homestead late in the tenth century. He was never self-conscious about his heritage. His father‚ Erik the Red of Norway‚ had earned longlasting fame as an explorer. Erik’s formula for raising Leif was simple: encourage the childs’ curiosity and teach
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their entire lives trying to obtain. Order stemmed from the predictable movements of the ‘sky wanderers‚’ the sun‚ moon‚ planets‚ and stars that marked the passage of time. Each of these celestial bodies was animate‚ a deity by modern American definition. Human destiny was linked with these celestial beings‚ and when catastrophic events‚ such as earthquakes‚ occurred in the Mayan world‚ the sky wanderers and the calendar based books of prophecy would be consulted to find portents of change. “Once
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