The worst thing they ever said was “we don’t know why these things happen”. That was a school counselor I went to, looking for resources. He just repeated that. I tried to tell him, no, I do know why these things happen. The heart stops beating. The breath slows and stops. The oxygen couldn’t pass…
Author: marwrites
Rumi- “Elephant in the Dark”: Reflection on a Poem
Some Hindus have an elephant to show. No one here has ever seen an elephant. They bring it at night to a dark room. One by one, we go in the dark and come out saying how we experience the animal. One of us happens to touch the trunk. “A water-pipe kind of creature.” Another,…
Blog Reviews Blog- Folk Dance Musings
This morning, I arrived at the school sports center early for my strength training class. As the semester has gotten on, we have been tasked with facilitating our own warm ups before class, so I snuck upstairs to the dance studio to do some HARDCORE CARDIO BURNER!!! *flame emojis* Joke. I turned on some music…
Celtic Woman- A Fangirling
I’ve been trying to write serious posts about religion and literature and deep stuff with impressive words mixed in, but this blog has always been about following my passions in the moment. Lately, those passions have tended to be pretty pretentious, but that is merely a side effect. Let pretentious-ism never exist for only the…
Blog Reviews Blog- Blog Tours!
Think of yourself as a tour guide. Let readers know what to expect from each of these blogs. What’s the blog about, who would enjoy this blog, and what are some of the highlights? Remember you are not critiquing, but rather you are seeing what you can learn from this blog and guiding others through…
The Art of Evelyn De Morgan
When I first saw this painting in the book Pre Raphaelite Women Artists (Marsh), I was instantly like “Aww, yiss! Another depiction of how sucky capitalism is!” (don’t @ me). Here we’ve got a King Midas, in golden robes with a big crown and a long beard, who lounges on the ground, unable to look…
Blog Reviews Blog- ‘Rejected Princesses’
Marleigh V. D. Bonnie Robinson ENGL 1117 35&53 9 April 2019 https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/ Among the Zulu tribe, Mkabayi ka Jama spent her whole life as a power on or behind the throne. In Thebes, Timoclea threw her rapist down a well and stoned him to death, then influenced the sexual assault policy of Alexander the Great….
“Dh’èirich mi Moch Madainn Cheòthar”: A Song Review
1- A Background I may assume, dear reader, that you’ve seen the Disney/Pixar movie Brave, which features a young Scottish princess with awesome hair. As it is a Pixar movie, Brave doesn’t contain the standard Disney princess musical fare. It does, however, have a pretty awesome number called Touch The Sky, which provides some animated…
Blog Reviews Blog- ‘Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood’
Marleigh V. D. Bonnie Robinson ENGL 1117 35&53 30 March 2019 The Pre-Raphaelites were to polite Victorian society what the hippies were to the silent generation. They were the no-good punks of their day, the scene kids, the millennials. Only, instead of copious amounts of drugs, the vice of the Pre-Raphaelite member was bright colors…
“Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Chapter 3- Post
Marleigh V. D. Bonnie Robinson ENGL 1117 35&53 10 March 2019 “Artists have anticipated almost every form of self-expression we see in digital media“, says author Jill Walker Rettburg in the third chapter of her book Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs, and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. She continues,…
Marleigh and the Arts 