Blog Reflection
Reflecting upon an experience is important. American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer John Dewey is quoted as saying, ‘we do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience’ (Dewey, 1938:139). At the start of this Unit I set out to create a blog that would begin to tell a story, as well [...]
Blog Rationale
At the start of this unit I had a few ideas in my head about what kind of blog I would like to write. I thought about the many forms of media I consume; from documentaries and factual programs to Art-house film, music and literature. I talked to other members of the seminar group [...]
Part Three
The night closed in around them. Bone-numbing, lung-crushing cold pressed against them as they huddled in a steep ravine. Howls and screams sent shivers through the air; whispers carried in the wind. Snow fell, drifting like dust in the dark. Morning came with a purple wash above the peaks, blood-orange snow glistened on the highest [...]
Where the story comes from.
This story, like the Forest itself, grew from a small seed. When the idea first came to me it had no real form or direction, it was a fallen leaf drifting down a stream of thought out towards an endless ocean of possibilities. It has, over the many years of being inside my head, gathered [...]
Part Two.
The morning was passing, the fire had burned down to glowing embers, the sound of birds singing trickled through the trees. The endless Spring flowers bloomed. She lifted her eyes from the glow, and up through the canopy, to the pale blue sky. A faint line of cloud, a thin cut of white through the [...]
Part One.
The distant foothills of the far off mountains hide in the blue morning haze. A paler haze, thin and trembling, rises towards the high white peaks; glistening ever-snow in the first rays of sunlight. It twists and swirls, carried higher and higher through the haze. Her eyes focus on its shifting course. She stands on [...]
An Introduction to The Forest.
A vast and ancient Forest, surrounded by almost-endless stretching plains and high snow-capped mountains; A Forest surrounding a great pinnacle of stone, with four streams flowing from its summit, spreading through the trees and out across the plains. A Forest split into four seasons, with a magical mixing of all four at the base of [...]
The Forest Of The Four Seasons 