Le Guin/ Wilson

I really loved reading "A Very Warn Mountain" by Le Guin. This whole article made me realize how important it is to journal. I'm not talking about the middle school journaling about describing which boy/girl is the new hottie. I'm talking about the journaling that describes the details of the events that happen each day. And the events don't even have to be about major things that are happening in the world at that time. My Grandma Funk is a huge journal-er. Right before she goes to bed she describes each day and she is 92 years old so I think it would be fun to go back and look at her life through her journals but that would be invading her privacy just a bit. When Le Guin shared some of her entries in her article I found those to be very intriguing because they were her personal thoughts and emotions. Thats what journals possess is a person's own personal thoughts and feelings.

I really liked when Le Guin started describing how the history and legends show that St. Helen is a woman. Oh man I just ate all that up. It also made me think about how all the people were freaking out about the natural disaster happening. Natural disasters may seem really destructive... at first but man-made disasters are ten times worst to the Earth. Think about the oil spill in the gulf, it is destroying many kingdoms of organisms and taking out ecosystems. Natural disasters seem to be horrible at first but they are supposed to happen, they are natural.

After reading E.O. Wilson made me want to read more about evolution and animal behavior I think that stuff is so fascinating. I listened to E.O Wilson when he came to Goshen and I was glued to every world he spoke. E.O Wilson can be a little depressing when he says the Earth just needs no humans bc really how is that supposed to happen? But I get where he is coming from.