![]() Jim Curran has been a wonderful riding president and his dedication to this party is an inspiration to not just myself but many. Being a member of the Niagara Falls riding this is amazing news.I know it has been a while since the last time I blogged-but regardless here are a few musings: In other news to quote a friend "you guys in Niagara Falls take your politics seriously!" Good Luck to all, although I am sure you guys won't need it! ![]() Vice President of Student Services - Laura Grouchyīoard of Directors - Brittany Traynor & Bianca Bruni Vice President of University Affairs - Damien O'Brien My perdictions for this years BUSU elections are as follows: It gives me hope that these individuals will be the leaders of tomorrow. Watching my friends get up and submit their name to stand for election and be willing to commit the endless, countless hours that the positions the are campaigning for is an inspiration. Everyone seems to acknowledge that this is the age of voter apathy, particularly amoung my fellow youth. Several thoughts I thought I would share with everyone on this. There are some excellent candidates and I am sure that next year whoever is elected will do a great job. Thus, I am starting this blog that will be the vehicle through which I may release my pent up art frustration onto the universe.I'm currently on the campus of Brock University, standing in Issac's (our pub and favourite hang out spot) watching the Brock University Student Union All Candidate Debates. If I don't, it may start balling itself up inside me and create a cancerous tumor. For my sanity and for my health, both mental and physical. But I've decided that I must begin to let a little out every day. Art wants to seep from every pore in my body, but unfortunately, I've had to stifle it for eight hours a day. That "wierdness" is the compelling NEED and URGENCY to create art. I possess the wierdness that is essential to all true artists. Not just because I have the ability to paint and create art. Who am I? I am many things, but most of all, I am an artist. In my mind and with my imagination, I must try to find ways every day to experience some kind of adventure, to make a new discovery, to express who I truly am. My body may be chained to this desk, but my mind is not. ![]() If I don't find an outlet of self expression I fear that I will begin to rapidly decline and wither away into old age. It is a cage that I have to sit in for eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. The problem is that I feel that my soul is trapped in the cage that is this desk. In this economy, I consider myself lucky to have this job. ![]() I meet new people everyday and have built a friendly relationship with my loyal clientelle, I never stop learning because this industry is so vast and complicated, it is sometimes mentally challenging, but that keeps it from being overly dull. There are some things about my job which I sincerely enjoy. You see, by day, I am a white collar professional (and not even a well paid one). Before I had even read the play, I knew what it was about. The play was titled: "Stairs to the Roof" Williams is quoted as describing the play as " a prayer for the wild at heart that are kept in cages" When I first heard that phrase, it resonated with me on such a deep level. In the play, the character Benjamin Murphy is a clerk who stages a one-man rebellion against the clock, the monotony of his eight-to-five job, and all the dehumanizing forces of an increasingly mechanized and commercial society. In it, Williams reflects on his own past at a time during the Depression when the would be poet had to quit college and get a regular job typing orders eight hours a day at the International Shoe Factory in St. There is a little known play by Tennessee Williams.
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