[100 Days] 100+ Words
Starting today, 100+ words for 100 days. Just because.
...of course, it's not really "just because." There are many reasons I could give for the project. Because I want to spend more time noticing, appreciating, and sharing beauty. Because I want to be paying closer attention to the world, and I do that through words. Because I need to nurture the creative side of myself, and I do that best when I make a public commitment to do something. That's why I'm a good teacher, because it is a public performance with responsibility attached to it and my need to help my students understand pushes me to articulate connections between events and ideas. It is why so much of my life has been about performance, literal performance, on the stage and in the classroom, because so much of my best self happens in community. I like my own company just fine but it is always in connection to others that I see the parts of myself that are most active, most in process, most fervently and with good faith striving towards the Good. When I am with myself and only myself everything becomes quiet, muted. Things happen below the surface, in the subterrean realms, and I cannot see them or know them or even be aware of them except in the dimmest of ways until I bring them forth with my hands and say "look, look what has been wrought inside me."
I want to know what I am making. I want to attend to the subtle changes that happen, day by day, not float on the surface of my most immediate reactions.
...of course, it's not really "just because." There are many reasons I could give for the project. Because I want to spend more time noticing, appreciating, and sharing beauty. Because I want to be paying closer attention to the world, and I do that through words. Because I need to nurture the creative side of myself, and I do that best when I make a public commitment to do something. That's why I'm a good teacher, because it is a public performance with responsibility attached to it and my need to help my students understand pushes me to articulate connections between events and ideas. It is why so much of my life has been about performance, literal performance, on the stage and in the classroom, because so much of my best self happens in community. I like my own company just fine but it is always in connection to others that I see the parts of myself that are most active, most in process, most fervently and with good faith striving towards the Good. When I am with myself and only myself everything becomes quiet, muted. Things happen below the surface, in the subterrean realms, and I cannot see them or know them or even be aware of them except in the dimmest of ways until I bring them forth with my hands and say "look, look what has been wrought inside me."
I want to know what I am making. I want to attend to the subtle changes that happen, day by day, not float on the surface of my most immediate reactions.