Random Thoughts

I did not enjoy writing the "A night out with..." essay. I feel like it was harder for it to sound like it flowed and interpret the descriptions in the same ways. So I'm sure mine sounded a bit odd, and not as descriptive as my first essay. I now have empathy for the author of "Painting with Neil", because I did not enjoy that essay too much and I thought it sounded choppy and was just uninteresting. Now that I have mine to compare it to, I know that it was hard to focus on just one person and make the essay believable. My favorite of the three essays was "A Practiced Grace" because that essay was really well written and flowed nice, even though yes coffee shops are now a bit overdone, but oh well! Faja happened to be the most popular, but I think it's because it was different. I didn't like that one a lot either. There were parts of it that I thought we good like the ending when Maverick says, "As the son of a sailor, his soul is free with the ocean". That whole paragraph I can imagine the father sitting looking out at the ocean in contentment; that would be me as well. Looking out at the beach, would just put me in a place of utter serenity and freedom. Letting the waves rock you from one side to the next, enjoying the sun beaming down on me and sand between my toes. I have only been to the beach a few times, but I consider it to be my happy place.