Topics in Composition

              A Palomino in Wyoming G ood afternoon.  Hope you are doing well today! I will return the first essays and we will pick up from where we left off last week, speaking of matters of  health and of how we can nurture wellbeing in ourselves and others.  I want to give you some time to look over your writing and finish your homework response (if you have not).  I also will review a few composition details, namely the importance of contextualizing your remarks, using imagery to convey experience, and providing readers with references such as source authors, site names, article titles, and so on, where appropriate or called for in work that borrows from that of others. I am curious to hear and read your thoughts/compositions on the various Keys to Wellbeing  listed at the greatergood Berkeley site: gratitude, empathy, awe, community, diversity, altruism, et al. Here I'll...

 "Icarus" by Henri Matisse  L(a                        e. e. cummings   (1894-1962)                         l(a             le             af             fa             ll             s)             one             l             iness T he poem above by e.e. cummings shows us visually something of the sensation of falling and of being alone in that fall....