This weekend we had to read through a bunch of short essays for AP Comp and I must say, I actually enjoyed reading them. What I liked about reading through these essays was the fact that they were all written on random topics that the writer appreciated because they helped the writer grow in someway or another. Key word: appreciated.
In the essay by William Kennedy he writes about how he wrote a short story on eggs. It wasn't a controversial essay about chicken farming for eggs, it wasn't an essay describing every detail about an egg, but it was an essay about ordering eggs. Thats it. But the fact that he appreciated eggs enough to write a story about them made ME appreciate that story. I didn't just blow it off like his father had.
My thoughts about how a writer's passion towards a random topic draws my interest were later reflected in the essay by Annie Dillard. In her essay she writes about learning to draw through a book. Dillard drew everything, and anything so that she could have practice at getting better, sometimes spending hours working on the shading of a baseball glove. She closes the essay by saying, "All things in the world were interesting, infinitely interesting, so long as you had attention to give them." This really impacted me, leaving me feel inspired for future writing assignments in this class (especially free writes which I adore), because now I know that I have the power to make whatever is on my mind interesting. Even if it is something as minuscule as ordering eggs. Because everything really is beautiful in its own way.
I'm going to try my hand at this. Stay tuned during the next week for a posting on Mr. Potato Head.
Rainy day music that ties in with the topic of this post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR7VOKQ0xJY
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