Time to Say Goodbye for Now

This class has probably been one of the best classes I've been in about so many years. At first when we were required to purchase "Le Temps Viendra" I was a little skeptical because I'm not the reader type. However, Ms. Hanson's plan of action each week regarding the reading of certain chapters then blogging about it was almost flawless. I am a busy man these days with a full time job during the week and super daddy on the weekends. It's difficult even for a man who has kid every weekend to find time because as you all know, kids will not sit still on the weekends. I had to take a step back from my personal life in order to grasp and come up with an idea to balance my life. In my opinion the class plan each week assigned by Ms. Hanson worked perfectly for me.  It's about finding the correct setting and what and when to do this. I'm the type of person that likes to follow an action plan in order to get in the mindset of what I need to do each week.  Was it a piece of cake? No it was not, but I have been able to brush up on my English skills and do something that I like doing when I have the time which is writing. I love the fact that each chapters we read during the weeks we were to blog about them. That itself helped me remember what was going on. For those who procrastinated, I will give one piece of parting advice. It is always better to come prepared and maybe get ahead just a little bit. What I mean by this is you never know what will arise during your class and it is always good to have things ready and completed. This class is one of the most outgoing classes i've attended and want to wish everyone a happy summer. 

End of a Good Book

First and foremost, this book has been good throughout. It's like I was taken back to the Tudor era and experienced everything first hand.  Hats off to the author Sarah Morris. I have not read a full book in many years and I definitely want to experience of reading the second book. Regardless of reading this for a class or not, I want a copy as soon as it becomes available please. I realized on page 296 that modern day Anne was back in modern day time and about to board an ambulance and go to the hospital. I still was unsure what time frame she was in. LOL.On page 298 it was then that I found out she had a cerebral aneurysm that had ruptured and was bleeding into her brain. That is why she felt sick in the begining of the book and passed out. She needed to be operated on ASAP! Even though her surgery was sucessful, sadly her neurosurgeon said there was another one deeper down in her brain that was inoperable. Anne is a "ticking time bomb" as she would later say about herself. She handled this well, but missed her family in the Tudor era and her love King Henry VIII. While she was recovering in the hospital, she had a few friends stop by including her friend of ten years Kate, who was the only one in modern era that knew of Daniel, her lover who was married. I found out also the reason modern day Anne and Daniel were not officially together is because Daniel does not want to bring that kind of stress on his daughter.  And also who goes months at a time with no contact to their lover?  Daniel does, that's who. Although he does this, Anne allows this.  As did mistress in Anne in the Tudor times. How ironic. Daniel does visit her a few times and even comes to see her on her first day home from the hospital. This is what Anne tells her friend Kate when she comes to pick her up. As soon as Anne settles in her home, Daniel comes by and shows concern and then he gets back in good with modern day Anne. As she regains her strength she gets to visit Hever castle and the British library for the last time and has a dejavu moment a few times when she strongly smells Tudor Anne's rosewater scent will visiting. I personally like the picnic moment Anne and Daniel at the Anker Yew that she and King Henry VIII had on many occassions. And the author Sarah Morris left us hanging and wanting more towards then end.  I want to know what happened.....

Gambling Addiction and Sweating Sickness-Chapters 19-22

Who knew Mistress Anne could gamble with the best of them and still lose? It's like she is fearless when it comes to things like this. And King Henry VIII reluctantly pays off her debts. I guess if you are Anne and knew you had the king right where you want him you could do anything. One of Wosley's men has taken the book "Obedience of a Christian Man" from Nan as her husband found it and began reading it. Nan frantically and sobbing lets Anne know this and instead of blowing a head gasket, she calms Nan down and asks for a meeting with the king. She then explains what Wosley has done and the king gives her his pinky ring and lets her know to go to Wosley and demand it back under his order, but that he also wanted to read this book. This is the begining of the turn of the tide in favour of the Boelyns. I almost thought King Henry VIII was about to bed Anne as things got real steamy in his private chambers. I was all bent over practically about to jump in the book as things escalated for them.  It seems at one point both of them were about to explode from being sexually frustrated, but surprisingly the king backed down, but I have to admit when he mentioned let me see your Duckies? That was hilarious to me.  I wonder what would happen if I were to say the same thing to a woman?  I would probably get slapped, but I have enough respect of a woman and would not do this.  Of course if you are the King of England, then you can say what ever floats your boat. As we continue to what's going on at the Palace of Greenwhich, there seems to be a sweating sickness going around and with great regret, Anne loses her dearest friend Bess to this plague. I'm wondering what other name this sweating sickness was called in the tudor era? Perhaps the flu maybe? Who knows but I will tell you this, The king bailed on Anne during a rough time and this affected her. She was furious that he left without as much as a hi or bye or anything. And to pour salt on her wound he left with Queen Katherine at that. Everyone pretty much followed the lead of the king and bailed. I thought at first Anne was going to die as well as her brother George because he caught the "sweating sickness", but modern day Anne remembered that he was able to overcome the sickness. Let's not forget towards the end of chapter 22, Anne loses conciousness.......to be continued....

Chapters 16-18

Before I explain these chapters I want to give my personal opinion of some things. First off, even If we do not know when Anne bedded King Henry VIII, she was still seeing a married man. Yes her sister Mary was known to have slept with the king, but my question is what is the difference here?  I'll tell you the difference, The Boelyn family benefited from Anne's rise. Would they have been any different to Anne if Mary was set to marry instead?  I'm guessing they would treat Anne the same way they now treat Mary. Sad and hypocritical in my opinion. This is your blood and family and yet just because the king bedded Mary and did not marry her makes things different?  I think no. It is a shame how fame and wealth can change a family.  Okay so apparently Anne has a few favours to ask of a few people.  And I find it funny how she manipulated 3 men in doing so.  As a man, I know the bargaining power quite well when it comes to women. They have what we want, and not vice versa. She uses her persuasion to see if she can get a granted wardship from Cardinal Wosely for one of her clients Sir Thomas Cheney. The girl in question of the wardship is Anne  Broughton. Whew!!!! There are too many Anne's here.  LOL  Okay, Thomas Heneage visited Anne in her privy chambers with a feast provided by King Henry himself in order to convince him to wooo the cardinal. Look up^^^^^^ earlier in the paragraph when i mentioned Anne easily persuaded 3 men.  LOL,, there you have it. She did this with the king, Thomas and the cardinal.

About 3 weeks and things start to fall in favour of Sir Thomas and his transgressions and he was granted wardship. SMH...this is some crazy family drama. Now Anne is getting a little nervous and worried because she yet to hear word from the king, but her brother visits by orders of the king himself to invite her and her friends for a huge picnic. Margery tried but could not console Anne enough. You could clearly see Anne's anger as she pretty much goes off or does not want to be bothered by anyone, even her mother Elizabeth. How's this for being akward,  As the king and Anne gallop with their entourage her brother is accompanied by his enstranged wife Jane. LOL

We really see Anne's jealousy grow when Queen Katherine accompany's King Henry VIII to the annual May Day joust. This was one of the kings favorite past times and this made Anne furious because she was not invited. I really think Anne does not have a foot to walk on in this situation simply because she is still the "Other" woman and we soon find out that is one of the many reasons King Henry VIII left her as well. 

No More Hiding Chapters 13-15

Anne can finally live a stress free life now that it is pretty much clear to everyone and they dare not object to the king. However, before knowing she does not have to hide or considered the other woman, Anne endured 4 months away from her prince. She and her mother Elizabeth made the best of their time together back at Hever Castle while her father, brother and many of the king's court attended to the matter of the king's current situation, which is getting an annulmant from Queen Katherine. These particular chapters basically set in place the rise of the Boelyn family. As they traveled to meet the king at one of his favorite places, Anne describes vividly how huge this place is. Even in modern day times as Anne visited the place after many remodels. You could tell how Anne was the center of the King's attention as she was the guest of honor. Traveling by barge while her belongings continued on carriage says a lot. The highlight of these chapters is her encounter with the queen herself. They met face to face like a duel was about to take place. As the queen quickly made it clear her dislike of Anne by calling her a whore. As with many servants during the Tudor era, they would have easily bowed and moved to the side letting the queen pass by. Oh but not Anne.....she got within inches of the queen and let her know her time was up as the current queen. Little did Anne know this was the last time she would ever see the queen....

The Man That I Am

Beneath this strong mans arms
Encased in a hidden pain
That holds him down
Yet with a smile on his face
He continues to move on
From the past to the future
With a constant reminder
Of what use to be
He now continues to improve
And move forward
Though he can never forget
What has led him to be
The man he came to be

By Kion Davidson

I wrote this poem last night reflecting on my life from then to now. It kind of resembles King Henry VIII, but i do not think would admit this.

Anne is getting fed up/Chapters 9-12

Cardinal Wosley has just entered the building and right off the bat Anne let's him know she does not like him. Particuraly because he was the main reason from a previous relationship. Throughout the chapters I have read it seems everybody knows the kings intentions towards Anne becoming his queen, yet everybody addresses her as Mistress Anne. However, I remember in the early chapters King Henry VII mentioned to keep this matter quiet. Well to me it seems like she was the only one keeping the matter quiet. That is until Anne sees King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine close together in the first mass. She quickly becomes jealous and has had enough.  When her brother George comes to visit her in her bedrooms and mentions the king would like to see her, she starts daydreaming during a time when her and George were about 9 or 10 at the time and they would gallop on their horses out towards the forest just to get away from everything. She does this now and as George reluctantly follows her the two set out to relive early childhood memories. Anne is still feeling jealousy and grabs her friend Nan and take off in the castle to get away from seeing the king and Katherine together. This is where things get interesting and Anne finally vents her frustration about being the other woman to Nan. Nan seemed surprised as there was only rumors about the kings intentions. Anne lets her know also that she over heard the queen and one of her lady's talking in Spanish and she understood vaguely what they were talking about. Katherine basically called Anne a "whore". This seems to be what many people are thinking of Anne these days. I'm not sure if Anne has bedded King Henry VIII by this time, but she might as well since this is what the court is thinking. Even her father Thomas Boelyn asks Anne has she bedded the king.  I've found out also that in Greenwich there are a few things of significance that happened there.

It's about to get Ugly....Chapters 5-8

As I started to read the next set of chapters I could tell things were about to get a little serious.  I do have a question for the author? I'm wondering who has spread the word so quickly about King Henry VIII's intentions towards Anne?  I remember in the first 4 chapters when the king and Anne were talking and he asked her to keep the matter private until he consults with his counsel. It seems like Katherine may have known even before the Henry mentioned his plans for an annulmant. I did become a bit confused on the moment her brother George came into the picture and they way he brushed her hair back with his hands as she was barely awake.  Anne mentions there was a rumor of sort about brother and sister intimacy?  Then she mentions George as being really close with her. Even then, she flinched when he did this. Maybe I'm stirring the pot a little more than need be. LOL Anne hit the nail on the head as she and her family arrived at King Henry's summer palace, that the king was basically buying her love.  It's funny she says this because in modern day time this happens all the time.  Men insecure within themselves has his eyes on a beauty and lavishes her with gift after gift. Oh I've done that before and the women lose respect for the man.  However,  this is King Henry VIII we are talking about. During the tudor era a way of showing love for someone is to buy their love especially if you are the King of England.  And how about the king requesting Anne to serve Katherine until the matter of annulmant was taken care of.  As I read on I knew Anne was not having any of this. She basically gave the king until the end of the year.  LOL...can you imagine having so much hate with one another as Anne(mistress) and Katherine(current queen for now) are even in the same room let alone Anne serve her.  I know women can be so vindictive sometimes. I am excited to see what happens next.

A man and his many Queens

"Lately"(originally by Stevie Wonder)

Lately I've had the strangest feeling
With no vivid reason here to find
But yet the thought of losing you been hanging
Around my mind
K-ci sing it

Far more frequently your wearing perfume
With you say the special place to go
But when I ask will you be coming back soon
You don't know never know


Oh I'm a man of many wishes
I hope my preminition misses
But what I really feel
My eyes wont let me hide
Cuz they always start to cry
Cuz this time could mean goodbye

Lately I've been staring in the mirror
And I'ts very slowly picking me apart
I've tried to tell myself I have no reason
With your heart

Now just the other night while you were sleeping
I vaguely heard you whisper someone's name
But when I ask you of the thought's your keeping
You just say nothing's changed

Well I'm a man of many wishes
I hope my premenition misses
But what I really feel
My eyes wont let me hide
Cuz they always start to cry
Cuz this time could mean goodbye

 

When someone wants something soooooo bad  it takes time, patience, understanding and humility in order to fully comprehend what is actually going on.  Too often we are blinded by our lust for a particular person that we fail to see what actually is in front of us. Over thinking, assumption, jealousy and betrayal usually happens in these cases.  I think I can relate to Sir Thomas Wyatt because he has a wife, yet yearns for Anne. It's possible in my opinion for things like this to happen.  The reason why I sympathize with Sir Wyatt is because I've been in his shoes before. Not married, but with someone else but wanting another.  I'm the type of man who most of the time feel more inclined to write my feelings out instead of blurting them out.

The Clear Picture

I have began to realize a few things in the 3rd and 4th chapter but I may have a few things to mention. First I must say the hunt left me with who is hunting who. I am going to have to give the author credit on this by throwing a curve ball.....I swung and missed Terribly...Thomas Wyatt making an appearance right as things were getting a little bit on the King Henry and Anne are about to become powerful together.
Anne described him in detail.  Basically saying he had class and style. Once she walked over to Thomas and her sister and her sister said I'll leave you two be, I was like hmmmm what's going on here. Intimate, friendly inside jokes? Those are not possible together in my opinion based on a few thing but before I say what those are my hats off to you Sarah Morris for gaining my attention on these chapters let alone the book. Okay now back our regularly scheduled program. Like I said a few sentences prior to this one, you are and cannot unequivocally have intimate, friendly inside jokes. Master Wyatt who is one of Englands greatest poets does not see it as friendly but intimate and quickly reminds Anne as explained on page 59 in chapter 3. I'm not going to give away details, but Anne was not the future queen of England for nothing. You really need to understand what is going on. Modern day Anne knows the events in history and decides to let them into play instead of stopping what will eventually happen. Let's not forget about Anne's father whom we find out Anne does not fully trust. His eyes are on wealth and not family.  As for my video from one of my favorite old school r and b bands, Listen to the first part when he mentions "I have seen your face in a year, we gotta lot of catching up to do"...This is exactly what I would say to Anne if I were King Henry VIII. LOL

Man this book!!!!

In chapter 3, I began to realize a few things. In my opinion from the moment and the way Anne has acted leads me to think and now know of time travel.  Count me in!!!! I know many of you would love to become connected with someone you admire. To actually see what they see, feel and hear. This lady is actually in the realm of how Anne became significant. She's in the courtyard trying to remember anything she can about King Henry VIII. Too late!!! He has listened to her talk and mumble to herself yet he finds it amusing. When she finally turns around to face the King many thoughts pour out of her mind.  The first one that I can think of is she thinks he's absolutely majestic. And this is after she starts to realize the last time they saw one another. King Henry VIII wanted her to be his mistress and she was not having that. LOL Anne even mentions how handsome he is and confident he looked. And this is while she is telling herself of how big and burly he would soon be towards the end of his life. While the king is still married to Katherine, he admits his sins and realizes he wants to annul the marriage. He wants Anne to become his queen, but asks her to keep this on the hush hush until his counsel can figure out how to handel this. I found myself thinking many times if King Henry VIII was actually not a king, then would these women flaunt themselves at him so willingly? Perhaps this is because he is the king, but is this really love of one another or love of material things? For as long as I can remember from back then, when lovers were together most of them were in different countries. And you expect a handsome king as every woman thought to be faithful throughout?  Not happening. I've said it before and I'll say it again, long distance relationships do not work. However,  if you are the current king of England and women are litteraly throwing themselves at you, what do you do?  Anne seems like she's a very strong woman with her head held up high and evidentally she does not give in so easily to the king. Maybe it could be that the saying of anyone playing hard to get intrigues the curiousity. King Henry VIII's mentality is that of a lion on the prey. It's like a game to him in which he clearly accepts the challange.

Scandilous

I think I would have a love affair with this Anne Boleyn and I've only read 2 chapters so far. Beginning with the prologue I knew this book could wind up juicy. I never thought or even heard of this happening in those times. King Henry and his many love affairs.  Wow!!  I'm not condoning his behavior but with only reading a few chapters I am curious as to how and why. This is not a typical book in my opinion that would catch the eye of the male population on the first try but when it's required anybody should go in with an open mind like I did.  Seriously, this is how these happened in the early 1500's. I can honestly say with me being extremely hot natured I would not be caught dead in all of the layers and layers of clothes these women had to put on in order to impress a man, let alone King Henry. That would just be too uncomfortable to me. I want to point out reading so far as Sarah Morris describes in vivid detail particular things around the castle, courtyard and I'm pretty sure the best is yet to come. I did become confused or maybe I actually thought myself who was who?  As she describes clearly how Anne smells to what she is wearing, to her attire. It's as if you can smell what she smells and see what she sees. I also thought she was out of her mind, but hey, some people are better thinking way out of the box.  I see nothing wrong with that. To be honest what caught my eye in the first chapter was on page 14 when Anne(I hope it was her) mentioned her skin was radiant and glowed in the warmth of the day, while here most striking facial features were her long, straight nose and cupid-like, rosy-red lips. Later on a few sentences later she also mentions how her bodice(I'm calling this a body dress with layers) gripped her curves, forcing her breasts to rise and fall visibly above the neck-line. Then I found myself laughing uncontrollably because she also mentions as she was waking up she noticed the lady who I later learned to be Anne's sister Mary was out of breath from all the exertion of running to let her know the King was here. She said she nearly laughed out loud when that happened.  Okay for some of you who do not get the humor, picture this. You wake up from fainting or passing out and wake up to someone breathing over you. May be just me but I pictured what she meant. For those of you who are confused, Anne passed out or was it someone else? And this is only the from reading 2 chapters.  To Be Continued....

Live and Let Go

The past few weeks have been a little hectic so to say..... work has been extremely busy besides today.  I know we are not suppose blog about our 3rd essay but seeing as how it's a proposal, I completely went off about....well you will have to just wait.  HeHeHe...anyways I had a hard time at first coming up with an idea and grasping what we were suppose to do, but after reading chapters 7 and eight in St. Martins Guide to Writing, specifically pages 304-322 in chapter 7 and also pages 323-328.  Also my good friend "P"(Pierro) explaining a little more what this was about.**************************************************************************************************
However,  this is not about our 3rd essay. This is about something that I have continued to eat at me like a fat kid loves cake. Oh I mean no disrespect towards big kids, This is a quote from 50 Cent song "21 Questions" It's an analogy at something that has been bothering me for almost 2 years.  I will say this...I am not a pessimist, Im optimistic. I've always believed everything would work itself out. Never mix business, money, trust together with friendship.  Recipe for disaster..True Story through my eyes. I've let this affect certain things. Well at some point in your life, you realize it will not work itself out and instead of questioning why it happened and realize the cowardly way to handle things of this nature. Live and Let Go

Plenty of Cause and Effects

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Plenty of Cause and Effects

Our 2nd essay is a doozy.....how ironic the topic of our essay immediately gave me an idea because of watching the movie The Dallas Buyers Club just last night. I honestly never looked at the reviews or what the movie was about other than hearing from friends how good it was. I came away impressed and amazed this movie was. You really need to see this movie. Anyway, the movie is about A.I.D.S. and how one rugged and wild cowboys quest. That is all I am going to say. In my opinion is imperative that you pay close attention to pages 409-414 in Saint Martin's Guide to Writing 10th Edition as this explains and gives different examples. Also, make sure you read the Basic Features: A well presented subject, a well supported casual analysis, an effective response to objections and alternative causes and a clear, logical organization. I never knew this particular event that happened during rise of the Dallas Buyers Club.

Challenging

Something Special

Monday, February 10, 2014

Challenging

I'm a little under the weather so excuse me if I ramble. I am confused on MLA/plagerism. Although I've read St. Martins Guide I'm a little perplexed about how to write. I had a hard time writing my rough draft on remembering an event. Taking a trip to my hometown to document and take pictures of historical houses, monuments and cemeteries. I actually had a pretty good time taking pictures and then looking at them. I now understand the meaning of "writers block"....LOL. I literally looked at my rough draft for an hour and did not know what to write. During my drive my mind raced of things to write about and that is what happened. I tend to forget my thoughts when it's time to write them down. True Story...

I have two tattoos. My first one was a spur of the moment tattoo, but nothing regrettable. It's the Chinese symbol for eternity. I do plan on adding to it in the near future. My other tattoo is symbolic to me because it's a cross with my two kids names on a banner wrapped around the cross. During the time i got that tattoo I had gone through a divorce and and going from being in my kids lives to seeing them once every two weeks took a toll on me. I now have my kids every weekend but I wanted them to know that no matter what happens in life I will always be in their lives.

Stella Don't Kill Yourself - Modern Family

One of my favorite scenes.....LOL

Life Saver

After reading pages 236 through 243 I can only imagine what other helpful resources the Little Brown Book has. I like to have the proper mentality being professional, regardless of the first perception people have of me.  Writing in business and Scientific Generes in Saint Martin's Guide to Writing: Tenth addition will come in handy for my line of work.