English 5 – 1/25/21, Monday

5-5:10pm:  Introduction, settle in.  How’s the writing going?  Have you touched your journal? 5:10-5:30pm:  Questions about last class, the semester, the syllabus? FOR TONIGHT’S PAGE:  This experience in English 5 will decline for you if you excessively deliberate, rather than ACTUATE.  Just move and create, contribute… 5:30-5:55pm:  What did you choose to write about, and…

When writing…

Don’t think about the direction, the structure or properness, or even what you’re writing. Just move with words. Something will materialize. Fixate in the act, the presence of you on page. The more we think about writing and the order of it being one way, especially to pin some grade, we self-block. There’s poison introduced….

Graffiti

Seeing something this morning. In the words. The kids. The pictures. Past jobs. Time and how I use it, when we talk to each other.

English 5 – 1/20/21, Wednesday

5-5;20pm: Introductions, site familiarity, syllabus. -Tell us a little about yourself, and your relationship with reading, writing. -What did you do today? What stories are there? 5:20-5:40: Who are you, beyond what you’ve already told us? What do you want? How will YOU get it?? NOTE FOR YOUR NOTES: Everything that you want is attainable….

Note

Fundamental and basic sources of happiness, are what contribute the most to your character composition and overall being, wellness, togetherness of self.

note

Take more than a couple minutes to yourself. As much as you need for character composition.  There is nothing wrong with you and YOUR time. When one realizes just how cruelly curt, or short, life is, there is no concern for time.  There is only action and production, actuation and creative combustion. You won’t care…

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This time we’re all in, teaching me more.  Slowness is a time to gather and incubate, plan and see and create.  It’s easy to fall into a pessimism pit.  But what if you directed that energy in an opposite direction.  What if you convinced yourself that you could fly above the obstacles, and through them,…