How "Place" Shapes Our Way of Thinking

                                        


                                                              The Place I Grew Up

My place isn't in the crowded city, or near a beach or even near a village.My home is in the country.I live on farmland. My Grandfather bought this land before I was even born. Then when when my Dad got married to my mom he sold them land for one Dollar? My parents later build a house on this land.We still live here today and this is were I have grown up.I love where we live it is so peaceful and calm.The night time is my favorite time. You can always see the stars in the night sky.  Now thats something you don't see in city. I love how when in the summer everything is green and if you look out across the field, sometimes it might catch your eye because it looks blue.This reminds me why they call Kentucky the Bluegrass state. I love the sound of the crickets in the evening just before night fall and in the early morning you can open up your windows and hear the birds singing I enjoy our huge garden every year It is a lot of work , but man it is good eaten..I love the blue sky and no tall skyscrapers. I love the Fall because the trees paint a colorful picture all around us.The leaves begin to fall and me and my sister use to love to build a mountain of leaves and jump in them.I love the winter because all the leaves have fallen off the tress and now they are bare and you can see through the woods ,then the snow comes and it is beautiful.The only foot prints is ours.We love to go outside and build a snowman. oh and we have awesome hills in the back field for riding a our sleds.My grandfather and father recently bought all the land around us.The purpose was so that no one else can ever build close to us.We don't want the expansion of the city or people around us to move in.We like that we have privacy and peace. So you see I live in what I call God country and I don't ever want to leave.

Austin Minton

1-2/ Blog Watching a Dance

                                                            

                            Watching a Dance 

While watching this film with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire” Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” I discovered how the force of elegant this dance looked and romantic. They look weightless to me. It’s almost look like there floating. The time and space is flawless. Fred is the choreographer and Ginger is following his lead. This is an artistic dance. They both express their graceful passionate feeling, then all the sudden the force and energy changes the tone of the music and dancing becomes more intense. The space between them changes with the level and direction is a different pace; it did change the mood and tone to fun and upbeat. 

Then the rhythm would change again going right back into the first sound of soft and elegance. There seem to be a pattern on this video, the mood of the music and dancing would change up and down with the time of the beat and tempo. You would be watching and the place in my mind would be relaxed and then it would change my mood. I would want to start tapping my feet. Each time it would set a different mood and performance, not just for the performers but for the audience as well. I really enjoyed this video.

Austin Minton