A Kindred Spirit

A Kindred Spirit A Kindred spirit I've found. Soft, gentle eyes of darkest brown betray the torment within. To be alone with you, if only for a moment- to see inside the man who’s dark, haunting, incredibly beautiful poetry, soothes my soul when put to song. To hold him in my arms would feel good- we are two souls, connected, tortured, haunted by the darkness of the world around us. Writing about it, keeps it at bay - his voice, encapsulating the thoughts of us unbalanced ones, that hang by a thin thread - our demons, leashed, kept near enough to pull out and examine and then put away... We’re beautifully broken creatures, covered with miniscule fractures that threaten to form deep fissures and crumble apart, if the balance is leavened. Eyes wide shut, not letting go, tripping over tongues that lie wagging at our feet. Hiding in shadows, stealing away to the darkest corners to avoid…

Kindred Spirits, composed by Brian Balmages, was chosen as our second piece for CMEA because of its beauty and the contrast it offers to itself and the set as a whole. The other two pieces are intricate but don’t offer the same contrast or meaning that Kindred Spirits does. Kindred Spirits is the most contrasting piece we have in our CMEA set. Kindred Spirits is unlike any other musical piece. It was written for a memorial concert for the death of two boys, but it was also written for their…

pattern of the set, the second song is usually a ballad. This year, our ballad for the set is Kindred Spirits, composed by Brian Balmages. Kindred Spirits was composed for the Browning family after Nicholas Browning had murdered his family on November 1st, 2008. His mother, father and two younger brothers, Gregory and Benjamin, were all shot by Nicholas and passed away. Gregory and Benjamin were both percussionists at their school and their classmates wanted to play a song at their concert in…

The use of perspective in both Raphael’s The School of Athens and Asher Brown Durand’s Kindred Spirits emphasizes the different subjects of each painting and distinguishes between significant and detail oriented additions to the pieces. Although perspective is used to reach a common goal throughout both pieces, each artist relied upon contrasting approaches to the perspective in order to accentuate certain elements of their work. For example, Raphael applies the one-point perspective system to…

The two paintings are similar in the point that they both have implied depth to a certain degree. Raphael uses the figures in his work to give the appearance of distance between them in the foreground and background. Durand uses scenery in the foreground to make the figures seem as if they are farther back in the painting. Raphael uses one-point perspective, while Durand uses aerial perspective. In The School of Athens, the two men in the middle of the entryway in the background of the painting…

Survival becomes the most important thing to her. Butler seems to be saying the same thing regarding the slaves. What will you as a person tolerate in order to survive? Rape? Whipping? Being property? Having your children sold? How much are you willing to take, or do you choose death? These are some of the things that a reader will ponder on when reading Kindred. One key question is does a person adapt to an oppressed lifestyle, or do they rebel against the plantation owners? In the novel,…

The quote from the passage I will be responding to is “The steady companionship of two or three kindred spirits can help us find the courage we need to speak and act as citizens.” and “It is equally true that we spend most of our lives in "tribes" or lifestyle enclaves—and that thinking of the world in terms of "us" and "them" is one of the many limitations of the human mind.” When I read both of these quotes I can’t help but think that they contradict each other. They both share the same idea…

Do not think about it, just do it! This is a quote used by many people to encourage other people to perform a task that they are not ready to do. When humans are doing a task , the think about what they going do ,what are they going use, and how they are going to do it. But there is a state in which humans can enter that makes a person be one with the task. In order to enter this state the person 's mind and body have to be in complete synchronization. The mind is separate from the body , yet…

Spirits We all want to know what will happen to us once we die. The questions arise, “Will I come back as another form of life?” Will my sole still linger around those I love? Will I just be a lifeless body in the ground? All these question are things we have thought about from time to time especially the older we get and how the fact of death becomes a reality. I know most all of us have been to a haunted house or heard of off the wall ghost stories. Are these true? Are there really ghosts or…

madly in love but is barred from one another by familial conflicts which inevitably leads them to committing suicide out of passion, and the acting and writing of such a play is so impeccable that the viewer begins to feel emotions of longing, resentment, and sorrow throughout the play Plato would say the play is causing what should be a well ordered soul to become muddled and therefore unjust. Quickly summarizing Plato’s idea of a well ordered soul, he states that a person is ruled by three…