![]() ![]() Mint snowball / Naomi Shihab Nye - Borrowed time / Paul West - Loose ends / Rita Dove - Nostalgia / Richard Shelton - Across the street / Bia Lowe - A wind from the north / Bill Capossere - Snow / John Haines - Decoy / Franklin Burroughs - Growing up game / Brenda Peterson - Rose vegetables / David James Duncan - Interlude / William Kittredge - Orange who? / Gwendolyn Nelson - Hands / Ted Kooser Lights / Stuart Dybek - All-out effort / Reginald Gibbons - Volar / Judith Ortiz Cofer - Around the corner / Sharon Bryan - Enough jam for a lifetime / Maxine Kumin - An unspoken hunger / Terry Tempest Williams - Three voices / Bhanu Kapil - Proofs / Richard Rodriguez - Tino & Papi / Norma Elia Cantú - Last shot / Tobias Wolff - LZ Gator, Vietnam, February 1994 / Tim O'Brien - Culloden / Judith Kitchen - Afternoon tea / Emily Hiestand - The shock of teapots / Cynthia Ozick - Harbour / Michael Ondaatje - The opposite of saffron / Mary Paumier Jones - In praise of the humble comma / Pico Iyer - Suspended / Joy Harjo - The blues merchant / Jerome Washington - The usual story / Fred Setterberg - Joe Turner's Come and gone : the play / August Wilson - Sunday / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.I admire this view of sacrifice and feel it reflects a certain understanding of one’s place in the universe and the dependence of one thing upon another. They only used what they needed, were always grateful, and never wasted any part of an animal. This point of view reminds me of Native Americans. Peterson’s father taught her that they should be thankful for the meat, appreciate the life that was lost for them to survive, and that no part should be wasted. They can be both happy about their new independence, while they miss having certain things done for them and that annoying family they used to live with. Another example is a college student moving into their own apartment after always living home. Although you really are happy for her, you also feel sad that she is going away. For example, being both happy for a good friend moving a way to a better job and life. There are constant changes and many focuses and reactions all causing an array of feelings about a certain thing. The saying ‘mixed emotions’ is not a myth, people have many emotion going on at the same time. These two reactions are obviously opposite but they both accurately reflected her feelings. When describing her initial reactions to eating game, Peterson remarks she feels both horror and aw at the same time. Two differing feelings can exist about a certain concept. By not actively getting the animal to a meal, they feel it’s a more humane or acceptable act. ![]() Why is it okay for a butcher to kill and slaughter a side of meat before you go and buy it, but it’s not for someone to hunt their own food and slaughter it themselves? The housemates had to remove themselves from the situation in order to accept their actions. There is an idea that they are ‘blissfully ignorant’ in this situation. This reflects a certain mindset or bias of the housemates. ![]() First she writes, “I told my housemates that my moose meat…was from a side of beef my father had bought…the carnivores in the house helped me finish off such dinners as sweet-and-sour moose meatballs, mooseburgers…” Peterson says that the same house guest who ate the moosemeat would have been appalled if they knew what they were really eating. In Growing Up Game” by Brenda Peterson, several concepts struck me. ![]()
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