Embedding an Image or Video to Blog Post

There is a difference between POSTING and REPLYING to add text, and adding a post gives you a full menu of options to create your own post. Replying only give you the option to add text in response and subordinate to the original post.

To add an image or video you need to POST, simply use the button in the toolbar. The image will need to be a file you can access, so it should be uploaded from a file that you own. You can also add a hyperlink to another space by using the hyperlink button.

You can also choose the formatting you prefer.

Multigenre Blogging

This is a challenge for the members of Writing 2.0. In response to the poem "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry, which you will find at the bottom of this post, you will write/do the following:

1) write and post a short poem (1 stanza minimum; 5 lines minimum) that answers Wendell Berry, by agreeing or disagreeing with him, rephrasing/paraphrasing his ideas so that they fit for you, or extending his idea.

2) Write a short personal narrative about a place where you have or you can "rest in the grace of the world," and feel free".

3) Find an image online and post that image to this blog, explaining how that image is a visual metaphor of an idea you took or thought in response to Berry's poem, or as a companion to your poem.


The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry