Tag: students

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A discussion shouldn’t have an destination, shouldn’t have some immovable aim.  And if it does, it should be open to the unexpected landings, docks that weren’t forecasted or estimated.  We need to not just be be “open” to other directions in conversation and exploration of ideas, but everything, all possibilities and steps, sounds, rooms, and…

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Work and happiness,

being happy. Living happy from your work. Not just possible but eventual if you find IT.

At the start of the day, celebrate that it’s the start of the day. You have seas of time to make whatever you want transpire. So… go.

thought

When you feel unstoppable, stop yourself. Appreciate what has you feeling so.

Stay on

the page. With passion– Purpose. Decision. Insistence.

Open mic. 

Have an open mic with yourself before the day ignites, before it’s off the ground.  And yes, write.  And yes yes yes…. RECITE to yourself.  Collect character and conviction, assembly for the day, see what will happen, decide what’ll happen before it lands.. Thoughts fall and envelop you if you allow.  So, allow them.  Morning…

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9/25/18

Sit.  Say nothing. Let a room speak to you. Teach you.  Show you something, tell you a story and instruct you on what’s keeping you from something.

9/24/18

This kind of “workshop”… First of all, it’s not a workshop.  Get that word out of your head. We read.  We react.  We have a conversation, one that produces several realities…. Confidence in our writing, information for revision, new ideas and new thought… Essays, Read Comments What to do, fix, expand How do you know…

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A student… one who…. 

One who, what?  What do we do as students?  We study, we struggle, we take notes and study more. This professor says this, another in another semester says opposite.  Opposite, then back to starting sight semesters later.  We make it our own.  That’s how we persist and insist, semester to semester as students.  Write everything…

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