Wendell Molby's Song Neil Thrasher

My story has a meaningful story behind it. The story is deep for me and even for the artist and probably for many other people. Hearing songs like this can inspire you. It inspired me to be thankful for the people in my life. One day they can be here the next they could be gone. You never know what’s going on in their lives.

I chose this song because, in my opinion, it has a good thesis that backs up the song lyrics and it gives you a positive feeling. Basically, the song is telling us to always keep our faith and stay strong no matter what. It encourages people to

It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about-things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. (16-17)

The central point of Rob Sheffield’s essay “Rumblefish” is that a person can become a vital part of your life. Even after that person is gone, the memories you have of the person continue to be a part of your life. The relationship of Rob and Renée described in the story was the story of two inseparable individuals. Their friend’s sister even thought they were one person named “Robin Renée” (649). Sheffield wants to remember every detail about Renée. He fears forgetting even the slightest detail about Renée (650). Renée lives through the songs on the mixtape. Sheffield states that “Renée’s not done with me yet” (652). The music and the memories Sheffield has of Renée are still an important part of his. The songs in the narrative help set the

In her poetry, Bernadette Mayer spoke honestly about her opinions and feelings about motherhood; this was something that wasn’t commonplace at the time. It was often expected, and ingrained into women, that they were to have children and be nurturers, and Bernadette was no exception. She had children, but through her poetry, she expressed her conflicting emotions and thoughts about the way her world operates. Patti Smith, like Mayer, addresses her experiences, and shares how her pregnancy was looked down upon simply because she wasn’t married. These two women had the courage to write about what other

What is it like to be a father at 16 when you are still a child?Some of the things that happen are people can not go to school without slacking. Teenagers will not be able to do the things you did when you were a kid like play with your friends. All of their focus and time goes to the child.In the novel, Bobby's childhood is disappearing because of his coming of age and Angela Johnson shows this with symbolism.

The men who were in Tim O’Brien’s platoon caught on quickly, if they talked about everything that was going on as if it was only a story, their lives became a little easier. It became easier even for the men who didn’t practically like the guy who died. In the war it wasn’t about liking one another, that didn’t matter, what mattered to them was expressing their grief without showing it. “In any case, it’s easy to get sentimental about the dead, and to guard against it” (82). Being able to guard against their grief was something that was hard for many. No matter how many stories they told, there was still a sadness that some of them never could get over. The death of Kiowa was one of those impossible to get over. His death impacted everyone in the platoon. Even though Kiowa was just their guide, they treated him like he was a part of their family of misfits. Every man in the platoon had a story for Kiowa. There was some who told people stories that had Kiowa never dying, there were two however where his death left such a huge impact on them. All they

So why would the band choose to illustrate such a serious stage of personal development with the nursery rhyme-like style of the song's chorus? Before we get to that, the song's emotional and psychological message must first be examined.

In discussions of the outcomes of suffering, one controversial issue has been whether the lessons learned through suffering outweigh the pain of the moment. In his short story, “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin tells the story of a young boy’s relationship with his brother, as well as their lives growing up in Harlem. As both boys struggled to lead a life they were proud of while trying to understand each other's differences, Baldwin highlights the overarching theme of redemption through suffering. Rather than using one’s pains and hardships to sever ties, suffering should be seen as a universal bond that holds humans together. In “Sonny’s Blues,” Baldwin repeatedly uses moments of pain to connect the characters in his story, demonstrating that

The central character in which the story takes off upon is Mitchell Stephens. He is drawn into this case by his own anger. He has his own sense of suffering and confusion toward his own daughter. Stephens is torn by his urge to save her and his fear that he can't possibly do so. He recalls the flashback of his little girl as a toddler at a near death experience and him as her father while singing to her, held her life in his own hands prepared to perform an emergency tracheotomy. And in that way, Stephens' own experience bonds together with the nightmare of those pain stricken parents: the ultimate unbearable burden of caring for children where strength will be tested beyond its limits. Stephen's own daughter in whom he loves dearly has been taken away from him although she is not dead; she is practically gone out of his life. He is pissed off, "enough rage and helplessness, your love turns to steamy piss." (101). Stephen is set to find the cause, something or someone to blame for their misfortunes and to rage against whatever forces took their child, "I don't know if it was the Vietnam war…I don't know

Day night, ragtime musicdanced out of the neighborhood honky-tonks. At night, Little Louis fell asleep to the sad songs of the local blues singers. Those sorrowful songs sounded like they were full of all the pain in the world.

Ben Cauley raised his trumpet to his lips to play like he did so many times before at the corner of College and East McLemore in South Memphis. Only this time, Cauley wasn’t inside of the Stax Records building, the place where he recorded on dozens of hits by Otis Redding, the Bar-Kays, and Carla Thomas. He was outside the building about to perform on the street. For this occasion he wasn’t adding funky horn lines to a soul classic, but was instead about to play one of his saddest songs, solo, and Cauley knew sadness. On December 8, 1967, he survived a plane crash that killed Otis Redding, his bandmates in the Bar-Kays, and the pilot. He was the sole survivor. But on this December morning, Cauley played “Taps,” a simple song that signifies the end; the end of the day or the end of a life. For on this day, a valiant effort to stop the South Side Church of God in Christ from tearing down the Stax Records and Studio, a few inches from where Cauley was about to perform, came to an end. It also marked the end of the building that once housed one of the largest and most successful independent labels in history, but the building represented so much more. Without consciously knowing it,

So Mote It Be is a phrase that is used as a way to wrap up magickal workings and affirm that your magic took the effect it was intended for. The definition of the word Mote means “must”, and it comes from the Anglo-Saxon word “Motan”. The saying is a way to finalize a ritual and ask the Divine for their help. The full version of the saying is “As my Word (will)

The last two lines represent the woman acknowledging the fact that many women before her have gone through this same experience. Time is is “rolled” or repeated in the sense that everyone was brought to this world in the same way. Line nine refers to the child having no awareness of itself or the world around it. The woman has created a life and that life has no idea that it is loved by her. The emotional connection between the mother and her child is developing on a deeper level.

Reading about the experiences leaves me feeling more empathic towards my clients with depression. Though I do speak about depression and suicide in my Coping with Loss group, which I facilitate, reading this book leaves me with a greater understanding of what my clients may be going through (especially when it is difficult for them to express themselves).