Lindsey's Epics

Once upon a time, lived a princess and her prince, on their vast piece of land. With them in their palace, lived hundreds of guards, servants, and courtiers to cater to their every needs. Next to their palace was a preparatory school. Many students would come to the palace to tour and hopefully prepare them for a life like the princess and the princes'. The princess and prince loved having an open landscape so they could get to know the students. On one sunny day, the prince and princess went for a lovely stroll along the pond that resided near the palace. As they were used to students often being around the palace, the princess told her courtiers to make sure her valuables were kept safe. The princess had her favorite pair of slippers that were her most important possession. They were a pair of beautiful pearl white slippers with a single pearl at the tip of the shoe. (The princess's favorite pair of while slippers; Source:  pxhere ) Monet was a student at the prep scho...

In this week's reading, I read through more of Babbitt's Jataka Tales and have taken notes on ones that I think would be options for me to write stories about for my project portfolio. All of the stories in part B show some kind of karmic action, but I wanted to chose my favorites and the ones that would inspire me to write an original story using the plots and/or characters. The Foolhardy Wolf This story shows karmic action in a negative way for the wolf. A wolf who is desperate for life and food finds himself a servant to the lion. The lion instructed the wolf to go each morning to look what food there is for the lion to kill and return. Over many days, the lion has killed animals and given some food to the wolf. The wolf, feeling strong enough, decided he wanted to kill an elephant. The lion accepted his request eventually and let the wolf try and kill. The wolf sprang towards the elephant but missed and feel under the elephant's foot and was killed. This story could ...

In this week's reading, I read through more of Babbitt's Jataka Tales and have taken notes on ones that I think would be options for me to write stories about for my project portfolio. All of the stories in part A show some kind of karmic action, but I wanted to chose my favorites and the ones that would inspire me to write an original story using the plots and/or characters. The Girl Monkey and the String of Pearls In this story, the girl monkey steals the queen's pearls and the chief guard is put to the task of finding out who stole them. He uses a unique way to prove who he thought had stolen them was indeed the girl monkey. He basically caught her in a trap by offering up other string beads for grabs and catching her not wanting them. This story could be a useful as it shows an occurence of karma on the girl monkey and I can work with the plot in a way to change the setting and time frame to college. (Monkey on a tree representing the monkey's looking for the ...