Waiting for Godot

Random, Absurd, no build up or anything like that, just a play about nothing really, two guys waiting for something that never happens. These are all things that describe waiting for godot. This play about nothing has virtually endless possibilities to what it could mean and what the author might be implying about these two men and there situation. Godot is described like a big business man of sorts in which these two are offering some kind of prayer. Now a lot of biblical references and things about God are made in this sense throughout the story, there are some parts of this story that are just deep and have tons of meaning to it but then there are times when there is nothing really going on exept for randomess. I think this play reveals that there are somethings in life where the ending and the outcome aren't always what we expect and there are thousands of different outcomes at all times that could happen. One of the mysteries of the story is the tree and the way it changes overnight, it has leaves so it has live, it is no longer dead. Perhaps the characters waiting is producing life or maybe it is a metaphor for humanity, that we wait around and do nothing with are boredome, while God is always at work, always busy and always producing life. I chose to read this aloud to myself, taking on the role and different voices of each character to slowly but surely get into there thoughts and I liked the way that they interacted with eacho other, they didn't really pay attention while paying attention if that makes any sense. Overall I liked waiting for Godot it is different and out of the ordinary which seems in these times to be becoming normal, back that that was kind of "absurd" but today I think that in our post-modern culture we like things that our abstract and different because we are so use to the norm that a little different changes are perspective and sheds new light on things...

Some thoughts on Dr. Horrible

Dr. Horrible was a very interesting tragicomedy in deed. At first when I was watching it I wasn't really to interested in it because it just seemed kind of dumb. But then I started watching it and getting the story down I liked the irony in the movie as well as some of the comedy . The movie turned out to be pretty funny because Dr. Horrible is trying to be this super bad supervillan yet he is just horrible at what he does and his arch nemesis the hammer is this cocky super hero that is really dumb but really strong and everyone likes him a lot. The whole homeless thing I thought was horrible the way he made fun of homeless people yet supported the girl because he wanted to sleep with her. I thought the way he talked about the woman and all that was pretty ridiculous, but it proved that point that he really is an egotistical kind of guy. Dr. Horrible is in love with the girl that the hammer is talking about and comes up with a plan to defeat him once and for all. The comedy parts I liked was just how dumb both of the main characters were, it made it funny when they would talk to each other and interact. Overall I understand the plot and the storyline but I guess I just wasnt into the movie. The plot was really non-existent or entertaining, the comedy at some parts were just uncalled for and outrageous. Interesting to see though the different things that people write and think about.

Lake Bonny Park

" Dancing" By Tyler J. Maraia

The trees they dance as the wind blows
there leaves just whistle and they glow
the birds chirp and fly around
there beautiful noise fills the air with sound
the path gleams with a beautiful light
as the sun shines oh so bright
the trees they dance as the wind blows
why they dance nobody knows
perhaps they feel the creator as he walks on by
or maybe they just feel like dancing they don't even know why.

"Beauty"

Its beautiful the sky
as you sit and look up
the blue and the clouds
all puffy reflecting down on the ground below
the background of the trees and the beauty of the flowers
captures such a sweet sweet moment that cannot be sowered
step on the boardwalk and take a walk to the lake
and stop and admire the beauty for heavens sake
for God created the world for us to live
but its more than that its a gift from God
that he loved to Give.

These are just some of the thoughts that came to mind as I walked along and would occasionally pause to listen to nature. The walk was nice and the lake was breath taking. As I walked along I began to pray and just listen to the wind as it would blow through the trees and observe if maybe, just maybe I could hear something. I listened to two birds have a conversation as if they were asking each other how they were doing and how everything was. They were probably talking about where the food for the day was and the shelter for the night but just maybe just maybe it was more than that. Maybe it was a conversation about life and living and everything that birds do and maybe they were talking about God. About there creator, sort of exercising that "animal instinct". Who knows?

God in Nature

The beauty of nature should lead us toward believing that God is the divine source behind it all. I mean just watching an animal hunt, or eat or sleep and go through the natural beautiful motions that it goes through to survive should be an inspiration. As I was watching the Planet Earth DVD I thought of the story in Mathew 6 when Jesus is talking about us not worrying about what we eat or drink or what we wear because God takes care of the plants and animals so why wouldn't God take care of his own children. The movie was mind blowing wasnt it watching the glaciers and the oceans move they way they did and as questions I would argue that we should appreciate the creation of nature more than the people of the world do because to us it serves a bigger purpose than just something that happend out of nothing. Like us the trees were created to produce and the animals as well to bring life to this beautiful earth that only God could create. The fact that we are here is just a blessing. The poem we read was very deep and captured the destruction that we as people bring to this planet, he seemed very disgusted to the point of he himself giving up because he felt there was nothing left to do. Like so many people he is searching, trying to find something and bring people to this understanding. With him its not a question of what made it, its a quesition of How do we take care of it? For us I think we should ask What can we do to protect God's creation? Why aren't we caring so much about are planet I mean it is a gift from God there are ton's of things we should do. In romans 1 Paul says "8The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." I will leave it at that with a statement...Remember we do not worship nature, but the creator of nature but we should also take care of the creators creation as it is a gift to us as well..