My Eagle Candle Lantern
The day I completed my crafting project of the eagle candle-lantern is a day that will live in my heart forever. Like everyone, I wished that I could be an eagle, soaring and exploring because I believed that most of us want to adventure, to go to exciting places where we have never been before. On that day in 1969, I learned that by designing the Eagle Candle Lantern I had developed core attributes: planning, imagination and craftsmanship, which qualified me as a creative craftsman.
In 1969, when I was a sophomore at Notre Dame boarding high school, the call went out for designs of the candle-lanterns from my teacher to find an artful activity to celebrate Christmas. The symbolic meaning of the eagle fascinated me, so I preferred the eagle over the tradition star because of its power and independence. I sought the truth about an eagle with all my heart through extensive study in the library. After my school announced the Lantern…show more content… My eagle-candle lantern became especially fashionable when Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first American to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. I had become an eagle candle maker like the USA crafted the spaceship. I have lighted my candle lantern to illuminate the dream of space exploring at my school. Moreover, I had fulfilled my artistic dream, and in the process of making the eagle lantern, I learned that making the difference is the key to an artist’s life. It requires the courage to change, to renew and improve the work.
The day I built the eagle candle lantern is the day that will live in my heart forever because that was one giant leap for my life, as for mankind by Astronaut Neil Armstrong. I remember how creative I was to build the eagle – candle lantern. From this experience I also learned that the industrious, imaginative and workable traits had qualified me as the most creative craftsman at my
