Prompt 7

 What have you learned about yourself, about your relationship to the physical world, about yourself as a writer over the term? How might your experiences affect your future writings?

Well, I've found that I like nature just slightly more than I thought I did when I began this class. I still much prefer to view nature through my windows, but when I do interact with the outside world, I am able to see connections I never noticed before. One thing I've done with all of my writing this semester (and not just for this class) is explore how fear and anxiety color the way I see and interact with the world. For the most part, I've enjoyed looking at how my antagonist relationship with nature is actually due to my fear of nature. At the same time, I've found niches that actually comfort me, rather than worry me. It was illuminating and rather unexpected, as I thought I'd spend most of the blogs writing about how nature was ruining my life.

That being said, I'm not so sure that I feel any closer to my particular place, or to any one natural place. I'd say I'm more open to finding the good things in a particular place. I found that the prompts got me thinking about place, something I often forget about and take for granted. I'll be more likely to pay attention to particulars and description, and look for the little things that I can connect with (like a camelback cricket becoming my nemesis, for example). The small things can do a lot of work if you let them. :)