Small things together makes something big

What Do We Do with a Variation?

What do we do with a difference?
Do we stand and discuss its oddity
or do we ignore it?
Do we shut our eyes to it
or poke it with a stick?
Do we clobber it to death?
Do we move around it in rage
and enlist the rage of others?
Do we will it to go away?
Do we look at it in awe
or purely in wonderment?
Do we work for it to disappear?
Do we pass it stealthily
Or change route away from it?
Do we will it to become like ourselves?
What do we do with a difference?
Do we communicate to it,
let application acknowledge it
for barriers to fall down?
James Berry

I think that Jesus Colon should ashamed of himself. Why didn't he help the women? I think it doesn't matter people about being black and white. It about kindness. The women seems to need some help. She had one hand with her suitcase, and other hand with a baby, and handling with two children to me it is really hard, although I have never needed to do that but I can imagine how it is like to handle so many things in one time. I think that Colon should at least ask if she needs help... If the women said its okay, she don't need help, thank you. Then at least Colon had tried to help. From the poem of "What do we do with a variation" by James Berry I found a significant quote, "Do we stand and discuss its oddity or do we ignore it?" I think it relates to the Journey of Jesus Colon. Colon had tried to make a choice on whether to stand up and help the women or ignore. This also reminds me of the poem, "The Road Not Taken", by Robert Forst. The poem of "The Road Not Take", by Robert Forst is like Colon choosing which direction to go, the future depends of themselves is on what they had chosen. Like Jesus Colon, he chose to ignore the women that might need help, which made him feel guilty for his whole life, but if he helped the women then she would feel better because he helped someone. No matter who is the person if it's a family, a friend or a stranger, everyone deserves to be seen and to be care.

EVERY SMALL THINGS MATTERS. WHEN SMALL THINGS ARE TOGETHER IT BECOMES SOMETHING BIG.

Aung San Suu Kyi house arrest journey

I think that Aung San Suu Kyi is a really brave and independent person, she never complains about house arresting. She was house arrested for 65 years, although she is not the one that had been arrested the longest period of time and had the most suffer, but she is the brave one that stood up for her country, for the people in her country. I see a connection between Aung San Suu Kyi and Prometheus, they both bring hope to people, Aung San Suu Kyi stood up for the people in the country and give freedom to them, and Hades brought fire to mankind, they both helped people to get a better life... I also see a connection between Hades and her, they were both like in prison, Hades is stuck in the underworld, and she is house arrested, they both suffered with loneliness. They both also wanted connections with the earth.

No man is an island

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

From seeing the video of No Man Is An Island and also by looking at the poem of No Man Is An Island written by John Donne , I feel that people should be equal. They shouldn't be ignore. People wanted care from others too. On the poem written by John Donne I feel the part where it says, "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main" is really significant, it has connections with the video, they both tells that no people is by itself they depend on each other to be successful, one people is only one part of all, just like a jigsaw puzzle.