Environment

Throughout the semester, I have been asked to examine and breakdown many different essays that have extremely different opinions on what nature and the environment could mean. Many of them were convincing, but the essay that I related to the most would have to be "Coming Around The Bend" by Sarah Rabkin. Rabkin writes about how even in our own environments there are new things to discover daily, and that we can learn a lot from observing our own neighborhoods. She points out that parts of her personal surroundings differ and are new from day to day and give her a sense of curiosity. She continues to write about how everyday is an adventure in her own neighborhood because she has no idea what lay ahead of her or what she is going to see that day. She also discusses that most people only feel curious in their own neighborhood when something is drastically different, instead of exploring it daily. Rabkin opened my eyes to a new way of seeing something as common as my own neighborhood and turned it into my own daily safari.