Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales
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I love to write. I have a deep love for words and language; a budding philologist (a late bloomer according to my father). I have been fascinated with the construction of sentences and how meaning is derived from the order of words.
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Finite-Time
In the spring of 2020, I was a student in a creative writing course to wrap up two more Associate Degrees. The professor is a close friend of mine and I asked him if we could have my peers answer the following questions using either poetry or prose:
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Poets
We Each Have A Story To Tell. Top Story - July 2022.
I have been governed by one principle for as long as I can remember: and that is to always be truthful. Even at the risk of losing something, I still remain true to this in my life. My father once said of me that I see things in black and white and that I express my thoughts, feelings, and ideas without a hidden agenda - often expecting the same of others.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Humans
The Cursed Night Jar
She knew that it was morning when she woke. The room was still dark and the air was still. Dawn was not yet there and the birds had not yet started their welcoming invocation. She tried to wrap her mind around the images and the messages presented to her while she slept. It seemed familiar in its tenor, the detail altered. Maybe it was just more.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Fiction
Popular Mechanics Vocalized
The noonday sun beat down upon the white blanket laid the night before reducing it to a murky stream flowing through the gutters of the urban neighborhood. Melted snow and ice streaked down the backyard-facing window casting wavy uneven shadows upon the living room floor. The sounds of cars slushing by on the streets outside pierced through the windows and front door. Headlights scattered and reflected against muddy puddles and plate size patches of snow. Shadows lengthened and darkened as the sun was laid to rest and the evening clouds rolled in. The chill in the air grew thin and piercing as the natural light dimmed within the walls of the matchbox house.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Fiction
The Well-Spring
Morning song began slowly and softly as the warm rays streamed through the open windows reaching across the room beckoning the tiny frame to awaken and join nature's celebration of the new day. Eowyn rose from the soft armchair where she had kept vigil as her daughter lay silently. As she approached the east-facing bed she could see the soft rise and fall of Arwen's chest. Leaning over she placed her right hand upon the delicate brown. Every nerve registering burning heat. As Eowyn began to lower herself to sit upon the bed she felt the strong protective hand of Aragon rest upon her shoulder. Eowyn and Aragon gazed upon their eldest daughter, who struggled silently against death. Eowyn looked up at Aragon as concern swept across his face.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Fiction
Reason and Imagination
In 1820, Thomas Love Peacock's essay "The Four Ages of Poetry" suggested a theory that "poetry in its origin was a primitive use of language and mind" and that "poetry had become a useless anachronism in his own Age of Bronze." Even though this piece was satirical in nature, Utilitarian philosophers would hold fast to Peacock's ideas. Knowing this piece to be a joke by his good friend, Percy Bysshe Shelley responded with his own essay "A Defence of Poetry."
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Humans
Renaissance Humanism
The subject of art throughout the ages has been an evolving study by art historians and archaeologists. Discoveries from the Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic, often considered artifacts rather than art, have slowly transitioned in importance and relevance to the art world. Following this historic period, Christianity played a role in much of the artwork found in churches and cathedrals beginning with the Early Christian period through the Early Medieval and then Gothic periods. This art was meant to instruct, inspire, and offer a way of life for the illiterate audience. This time of visual instruction soon changed; transitioning from a medieval world to the age of Renaissance.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Wander
The Pavement of the Beit Alfa Synagogue:
"Little remains of the synagogue building except the floor and walls" of the Beit Alfa Synagogue built during the 6th Century. Complete excavation of the Beit Alfa Synagogue, roughly 90 years ago, revealed the mosaic floor in the central nave, arranged along the length of the floor, depicting the Ark of the Covenant, signs of the zodiac, and the sacrifice of Isaac, the son of Abraham and Sarah from the Old Testament. These images were formed in three separate panels and framed with a mosaic border.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Geeks
"Urban Light". Top Story - July 2022.
When I travel, I will take in a museum or historical site. Some of my favorites have been Chichen Itza, the Smithsonian museums, and the National Mall. I have been visiting museums since I was a teenager, visiting many and only a few many times. The Norton Simon Museum has been a favorite since my first visit. Other museums include the Pacific Asia Museum, The Huntington Library, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Even with the current demolition and construction, LACMA still draws tourists - many stopping to strike a pose at the Public Art "Urban Light."
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Wander
Literary Modernism
Twentieth-Century Literature and Beyond Some of the characteristics of the Twentieth Century include an "alienation" of the modern artist from society and a complete rejection of Victorian values. The prior centuries were marked by conviction and optimism and were replaced by skeptical irresolution and pessimism. The Twentieth-Century through the Twenty-first Century does not have a distinct literary genre as prior centuries that were distinguished by the social climates of the Romantic Period and the Victorian Era. The current century appears to have an eclectic sampling of literature including Modernism, Structuralism, Deconstructionism, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, etc.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Geeks
Bosvenegh Manor
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window... The soft illumination revealed a single set of footprints leading to the ivy-covered wrap-around porch where a cherry-wood rocking chair softly creaked in the stillness of the night. The halo of the candle obscured the figure staring out at the gnarled trunks of ancient Sitka spruce, laburnum, and ash dripping with English ivy and Spanish moss. Fireflies danced and blinked to the pulsing rhythm of summer cicadas and crickets lulling even the most restless of creatures.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 years ago in Fiction
