Midday notes …

How you want the day to end, what you were able to get accomplished… what you did do versus what you didn’t. Never mind that.  Just focus on the Now.

English 1B, Wednesday 4/08/20

-Update on how you’re doing.  What have you been writing? -What is this teaching you, this being kept in place…. What shelter is it providing for your writing, your ideas? -What did you write about Lawson, in your typed response? -Lawson thoughts….  I’m dying to hear where you are feeling her intentions, and why she…

Being sequestered and confined to one space, easy to be discouraged.

Easy to be complacent, inactive, feel a little defeated. How to get through this…. Simple. Write through it.  Single words, bits of a sentence, phrases… they don’t have to be full sentences. Write to yourself, write to the page, write to where you are. If you aren’t moving, you’ve decided that. If you’re bored, you’re…

Current colleagues …

Tomorrow we start over. Not only that… we begin a narrative that mends and composes more composition, more narrative… Truly, now we get to learn. NOT from me… from each other. Enjoy your night, kind friends. Talk to you all this week. ❤️🖋🙏

Something I need to say….

This whole thing is testing us, in a multitude and stormy assembly of ways. I’m quite convinced, though, that this elevates and decides character direction. Many of you in the 1B SRJC crews have written me talking about the dimensions of quarantine, the narrative it provides. The reality that you’re writing its realities and the…