Tag: Self-Realization

Enjoy Your Life

Hong Kong is a prosperous and fast-paced city. Last month, i went to Peng Chau, which is an outlying island, to get away from the stress of the…

Scotland the Brave and The Flower of Scotland: A Wee Moment with Huge Impact

We tend to remember “firsts” in our lives. Hopefully we recognize the importance and value of experiences as we live through them. My first travel overseas was as…

Give Me My Wings

It’s time now My time now Give me my, Give me my, Wings Having grown up in a particularly religious family, one that didn’t encourage listening to rock…

GROUP and Individual: Cultivating Spaces of Expression

In preparation for teaching online during the 2021 summer semester, I have been thinking about how much group discussions are transformed by digital platforms. In reflecting on the…

Reflecting on Reality Through Fiction

One of my most memorable humanities moments came during a period of my life where I was not enrolled in any academic institution, but instead working full-time in…

Sounds of a Thing in Indiana

The following text is a transcript of the above recording. My name is Daun Fields, I’m a punk singer and a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida….

on a small radiant screen honeydew melon green are my scintillating bones

Gwen Harwood’s “Bone Scan” will always have a place in my heart when it comes to my inspiration for teaching Literature and my abiding interest in the humanities….

A Movie That Stayed Longer than I Expected

It was a balmy October night in 2017, when I lay pondering in a tiny rented room in a city that wasn’t “home” both literally as well as…

The Unexpected Grief of Breath of the Wild

Video games are kind of known for having pretty bland or shallow main characters. From the perspective of the video game developer it makes sense: you want to…

Photographing Rome

When I was 5 years old, my family and I gathered around the Christmas tree bright and early on Christmas morning. I was more than excited when I…

Humanities, My Life-Long Companion

After spending some time searching for my very own, singular, life-altering “humanities moment” that set me on my chosen path, I came to the conclusion that no such…

Identity and Its Development in our Everyday Lives

I am a second-generation Turkish American. However, how does this hyphenated identity impact the daily interactions I have in society? When taking an intercultural communication course, I was…

Playground Playdates: The rhythm and data of double Dutch

In October 2019, I attended New America’s Neighborhood Stories: Looking Into the Past to Map the Future: A Humanities + Tech Approach. Attending this session, inspired me to…

Quo Vadis: Religious Experience and Critical Thinking

I was a high school english teacher in a suburban high school, and I am currently teaching philosophy at a community college in New Jersey. At various moments…

My First Humanities Moment

When I was in fourth grade, I read the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. This was the first time I read a book for fun, not…