Amanda

Joined December 2020

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Open Space
In all honesty I thought that when the time came to write this paper on the final chapter of contemplative dance practice: open space, that I would be able to define open space. However, I find myself still asking…what is open space? I feel as though it is a space in which a group of individuals holds in order to provide way for original expression in a communal space. Therefore, there is room to express oneself within an influential environment. “Individuals become a group; the improvisation is a single total event, or succession of events in which each person becomes simply a part” (Forti 72). In this explanation of the space I feel the key word is simply. It is important that within the space we do not feel the need to perform or take part in something we do not feel connected to do so.
By Amanda 5 years ago in Humans
Intimate Relationship Between Sadness and Fear
Chögyam Trungpa shares; “ True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear, but going beyond fear” (33). Most people in our culture have a misconception of what is being said about fearlessness in this text. Fearlessness comes off as the idea that we are free of fear. While that may sound nice at first, a life without fear leaves little room to feel at all. If we lead a life free of all fear than we are freeing ourselves from any sort of connectivity. I am not saying that we must live our lives in fear, but we need to be able to face what it is that makes us so afraid and closed off in order to open up and experience this world.
By Amanda 5 years ago in Humans
Three Day Contemplation
You don’t realize how significantly words can evolve until you provide space to contemplate them over time. For this assignment I chose one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s quotes from page seventy- nine; “If one wants a calm sea one cannot get it by suppressing the stormy sea. One must wait for this same sea to become calm”. I decided to break up the quote on day one and two and consider it from different lenses on day three and four.
By Amanda 5 years ago in Motivation
Boulevard
Hit the road baby, the highway is calling your name. Don't hold back, you'd miss out and that'd be a shame. There is so much
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets
Individually Together
turn me inside out, so there is no room to hide. turn me inside out, give me a safe haven to confide.
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets
Flutterby
as a butterfly fleets the cocoon vivaciously flying towards never land I love, love don't let time turn silent the answer I find
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets
Bound and Broken
I sit and watch with a distance. Everything rushes through me in an instant. All I can do is quietly grin...and resent you.
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets
World In Flames
cross my heart, hope to die forgive me God, but I tried to see through this heavy mist to make of what has come of this I attempted to stay strong,
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets
Flowering Curiosity
Sprouting from the hells bellow, true beauty, soon to show. First sighting of the sun, roots dug to deep, unable to run.
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets
Whispering Wind
She stands outside reason : unknown. The leaves crackle as they glide. The wind picks up; trees are blown. The sun captures her in a spotlight,
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets
Cloudy Mind, Sunny Smile
everyday the weather changes in my head sometimes working together thoughts spin the storm is fed
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets
Pick Up The Pen
Words filling empty thoughts: 'needs' and 'wants' they tend to cross. Letting our surroundings chime in, No longer comprehend where we're being driven.
By Amanda 5 years ago in Poets