Read Patrick Madden's essay, "The Infinite Suggestiveness of Common Things". This essay can be found on our class webpage under SLCC documents. The excerpt comes from his book of nonfiction entitled Quotidiana.

After reading , respond to the prompts below in a thoughtful and well written response. Be sure to put your name and period in the title.

Assignment: In a paragraph (about 200 words) respond to either the author (what do you find interesting about his take on essays), or write a response on how you personally view his perspective. Refer to specific parts (passages or quotations) of the essay as you reflect and respond. or write a reflection as the post/article relates to you personally.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Aubrey jones period- 3

So many people go through life, looking for a huge event to happen. A huge event that will be a big story to tell bragging about how great your life is. Of course, big exciting things happening to you do have an impact on your life, but so do the little things. The little things are very often overlooked. I loved how he in this essay, talked about how he realizes that because not very many people do. He specifically mentioned the phrase "stop and smell the roses." There are so many other things that you need to stop, and see while we are all hurrying through the day to just make it back home to relax. While so many people are rushing, running, and working they are overlooking the little things that make life great. It is also talked about in a quote he shared, "we sleepwalk through most our lives..and..every once in awhile something happens..outside ourselves that forces up to pay attention in a new way. And we suddenly realize the world is much richer, and more magnificent, and more wonderful than we had felt for a long time." I completely agree, and love that he added this quote. Once you see you are missing little beautiful things, you begin to notice more and more. You see the beauty in things almost always overpassed. He then goes on to say "not to senimentilize.. I think children live much more continuouslyin a state of awareness of the miraculousness of exsistance." That I can also vouch for. Working at a daycare, the kids love and get excited over the little things. They see and hear thing differently. It makes you think, when do we loose that?
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  1. UnknownSeptember 24, 2014 at 1:37 PM

    Paul I. 9-24-14
    I thought this post was awesome because it talked about the little things that matter. And sometimes we go through life sleeping and not knowing what's going on, but there are few people that know whats going on

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  2. UnknownSeptember 25, 2014 at 11:06 AM

    I agree 100%. I think that there are so many big things in life, but without the little things these big events would not be possible. Stopping and smelling the roses makes us realize how much we have achieved.

    Parker Hill
    5th Period

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