It's official! I was told I have a sabbatical and that my proposal was worthy. I'm deeply honored and humbled. I mostly feel at that moment of crossroads, where all of the roads from my life have intersected into the now.
At the movies for myth, mind, metaphor, and magic: a memoir
These three representing mythology, psychology, and religion.
I am simply busy in a busy-busy way.
I am getting voice-to-text writing in as ideas come to me. I am so thankful for Google Docs and voice-to-text.
I also want to include, I want to write a "what does success look like in the classroom?" article to help combat texting in class, ChatGPT and so on.
It's wonderful to think that when we align our thoughts into working on a project we are passionate about, we can see how we find things in our everyday engagements to lead into writing.
I think of that Oprah Winfrey episode still, that when you have positive thoughts, you see the positive in everything. Also the opposite, via negative thoughts.
I think it's just wonderful that I'm in this deep meditation about the healing power of movies as well as the need for them. Having the chance to teach the tx200 class is furthering this concentration.
I'm using Google Docs a lot for just writing down ideas or outlines for writing. And even as I post this I'm doing it voice to text.
I'm also realizing I need to return so many library books back. I put a post up on Facebook with my 14 books that I need to return because I'm just not going to have the time to concentrate on them. However it's kind of nice to think about I have these resources I can turn back to and I just have to look at what I've checked out before to find them.
We're also canceling some of the events. Wednesday really set me back because it was that all day field trip and then I realized I felt behind.
But I'm just blocking weekends off for not doing any work. Setting those good boundaries. Plus the Royals even though they lost the first game in the ALDS playoff against the Yankees, they were definitely competitive and the game went back and forth which made it really enjoyable.
The article about the need for the trickster how the trickster is portrayed in films as a way of modern mythology
The mental romcoms list of films
To wrap up the Matrix article
To lay out the possible chapters of the book
To list the books I'd like to use like art of memoir, girls on film, midnight fuel, and women and other monsters
I know that the one thing I will need to keep in mind when I'm sitting down to writing is to have those books that I admire and can borrow from for my own approaches. I'm talking about women and other monsters, midnight fuel, and now this book Girls on Film lessons from a life of watching women in movies by Alicia Malone. What an amazing way to weave movies into her memoir.
On top of this I know that the academic kind of stuff that I want to interweave needs to be done in this tradition. That I'll need to just weave in the things about such a movie like xanadu. Already I am Vision the book for starting with the trailer but I'm sure in journaling about. Then although I definitely will travel through time throughout my book, I will need to Center on what would the most influential movie be. I'll need to call out the point that it's important for me to talk about gender studies and women's studies, that one movie which would be the mark of the most horrible of all films that even the razzies started, which would be Xanadu, was really at a crucial point in my life that I needed movies to save me.
Page 94 of Girls on Film would be a good way for me to write about Santa do, the culmination of what I could be, even the queer nods of the women who were more than sisters through their dancing, the lesbian call by Andre Lorde to claim and reclaim the body.
I'm at that point where I also need to carry around my rose quartz crystal again, as I see the trees and I'm so excited about the Autumn weather. I'm also excited about the prospect of finally getting this disc healed that's causing my limp leg.
Add Paisley Rekdal's The Broken Country!
