Annie Dillard

I really enjoyed the style of writing Annie Dillard wrote in the two articles we were supposed to read. It was defiantly more of an action packed style of writing that kept me intrigued for what was coming next. I particularly liked the "total eclipse" reading because it was one method of trying to explain the weird ways of human nature through a natural event. I liked how the reading was broken up into 4 parts. Annie Dillard began the 4th part by describing how we are taught as children to wake up from a deep sleep and then after we get the hang of it we never think about it again, we just do it. There are a lot of things like this that we just do in life and don't even think about it. This action also goes along with what we notice about nature and the environment. Most things that are happening in nature we take for granted, like the changing of seasons. But when a total eclipse happens we totally change our perspective and give our full attention to what is happening because it only comes so often.

I really enjoyed Dillard's story about the eclipse. She made it into an action story that I couldn't stop reading and she help related it to so many things about life. I defiantly learned to just enjoy life and all it's wonder, just sit back and enjoy the show. For the most part I already live my life like that but I tend to get caught up in the little things that don't matter as time moves on. So that is my new goal, just to enjoy life for all it's craziness.