Hannah Arendt wrote, "It is in the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected". It is the nature of human life that we can find ourselves doing things that no one ever thought of before, that we do things which are unpredictable. In all beginnings lie boundless possibilities.
This is a beginning, a new forum for expression. A place to create new things. That's my introduction. I will write about anything and everything that comes to mind. It might be humorous, it might be serious, but above all it will be whatever is of interest to me. I have little hope of attracting a vast readership. I don't intend to have fantastically amusing pictures (I don't draw well anyway). I don't intend to even have a hugely cohesive theme. If even one person reads what I have to say, and is given something to think about, my efforts will be worthwhile.
A little bit about me. I am a junior at Iowa State university in the English education program. I intend to teach. I'm interested in rhetoric, in philosophy, in classical politics, in literature, and in that type of life and expression that is uniquely human.
Why The Teaching of Trees? In Tolkien's vast history of another world the Elven people awoke speech in many things, including the trees, and their shepherds, the Ents. Speech is a powerful gift to give anything. My professional goals are concerned with enlarging this gift in my students for one thing, and for another, of all the plant life on earth, I love trees the most.
That's all for this post. Just a start.
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