Laudan Payne

        Laudan Payne, senior, is happy to be spending her final year at OLu involved with the Humanities Academy. She enjoys all forms of art and expression because of the beauty of creating. When she is not  writing, Laudan is hanging out in her garden and reading poetry. 

                                                                More of Laudan Payne’s work:

• Everything Feels the Same – Laudan Payne ’21 Scrolling aimlessly on my tiktok for you page, the fragmented audios tend to blur together into one hazy monotonous sound. Each video just feels the same.   Wish I …
• Nameplate Chains: Name So Cold, It’s in 14k Gold – Laudan Payne ’21 For my 18th birthday my best friend gifted me a little gold necklace with my name written on it in Farsi. I remember tearing up and being …
• An Ode to AP Art History – Laudan Payne ’21   While sitting in AP Lang, my friend off-handedly mentioned to me that if we did not teach history, everything that happened in the past would simply be forgotten. Nobody …
• Black History at Orange Lutheran – It began in 1926 as “Negro Week” started by historian Carter G. Woodson. Black History Month has grown into a National Celebration of African-American History as a reminder of the …
• The Significance of the Death Penalty – In wake of the recent death of Brandon Bernard at the hands of the federal goverment via excuation, the rise agaisnt the death penalty has overtaken the media. It draws …
• The Post-Halloween Damage from Cultural Appropriation – Amidst a pandemic, what a person wears as a Halloween costume is not necessarily the biggest concern of 2020. However, for years the damage of cultural appropriation has been overlooked …
• “A Senior Amidst a Pandemic” – What’s it like being a senior during a pandemic? Well, I’ve been sitting at my desk for the past 8 hours or so, half listening to what my teachers on …
• The Birth of Venus – And there, bubbling in the shimmery blue waters of the cytheran sea, there arose a young woman, with twirling red hair and beauty unparalleled by any other. She rose through …
• A Grown-Up Examination of C.S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew – “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”- C.S Lewis, The Magician’s …
• What Is It About Love? – There is a certain beauty to your longing, How your heart flutters when you see the dewdrops kiss the roses’ lips  How each ray of moonlight is not simply a …