Connect to outside sources (article/book/podcast/ted talk/blog/website/etc)

• This is a Text investigation. Consider your essential question in the context of at least two outside sources you have identified that connect to your essential question. How do these ideas resonate with or challenge your own beliefs, experiences, or practices? Be sure to give concrete and specific examples. You may want to address: ways the sources answered parts of your Essential Question, what additional questions were raised, or how your essential understanding of your project was altered or confirmed by the readings you did. Make sure to cite your sources.

My essential question really has a lot to do with my own emotions and mental state. I took whatever lines popped out at me and wrote them down so I could bring them with me wherever I wanted to write and think about them more. I like to think about these two lines “What is real, given what we know? I trust what I see” and “We are eroding and evolving at once.” ( erosion, TTW). I love that thought of, we are eroding ourselves. I thought about it as during quarantine my mind felt like it was eroding all bits of creativity left and in that way, I was eroding. I thought it would instantly change once I was in a beautiful place like Utah, surrounded by erosion. While I was there I still had trouble writing. I thought about how much nature really affects my creativity. I love writing about nature and my best reflection of myself comes from that, the isolation and just being with myself. I thought about “I trust what I see”. In New York, I write about people. That’s what I see in New York. It’s not the concrete walls and man made parks. The most inspiring thing is the people in New York going about their lives and their habits. In nature, I see beauty and evolution. That becomes more personal. It’s not only about where you are, but It’s also about what you are writing about. What I’m comfortable writing about if It’s going to be shared especially. It flipped my entire essential question and made me think about how I choose to write.