Jim Harrison and Friday Blog assignment

"I Believe"
I believe in steep drop-offs, the thunderstorm across
the lake in 1949, cold winds, empty swimming pools,
the overgrown path to the creek, raw garlic,
used tires, taverns saloons, bars, gallons of red wine,
abandoned farmhouses, stunted lilac groves,
gravel roads that end, brush piles, thickets, girls
who haven’t quite gone totally wild, river eddies,
leaky wooden boats, the smell of used engine oil,
turbulent rivers, lakes without cottages in the woods,
the primrose growing out of a cow skull, the thousands
of birds I’ve talked to all of my life, the dogs
that talked back, the Chihuahuan ravens that follow
me on long walks. The rattler escaping the cold hose,
the fluttering unknown gods that I nearly see
from the left corner of my blind eye, struggling
to stay alive in a world that grinds them underfoot.
--Jim Harrison


Your Friday Post: Our blogs should be established by now, so let's spend a day having a look around to see what people have done with theirs. Do more than skim and click through these pages--read them deeply, looking at their literacy narratives, their reading responses, their overall look, and do the following:

(1) leave comments for at least three different posts, reacting briefly but sincerely to something the author said in it.

(2) Compose a new post on your own blog that does two things: First, name 1 or 2 blogs that you think are the most interestingly made so far. Link to them, quote them, and discuss briefly what you think makes these blogs above average.

(3) Second, in your post you should name the blog that you think has the most impressively written Dead Poets Society response and discuss what is good about it: its opening claim, the way it describes its observations, or its discussion of the tone. Quote it, too, if you like.

Let me know if you have any questions.