Hello, Dennis

 Wow it's true that sabbaticals really help with writing. I'm finding it really difficult to get back to any of the previous writing I've done. However, I have a good plan.

John Lyden is amazing. I think about all of those courses in theory that I took. He summed up what I should do as a revision for my Batman paper. Alongside that, he gave me a good head start and what I should look at. He gave great suggestions about what I should cut out and what I should work on. I can only think of a couple of other professors, you know who you are, who did ask me to meet with them outside of class so I could look over my work with them. This kind of amazing scholar is just what we need in the world.

And he asked me to write the film review for bone Temple. So I'm going to work on that first because it's due midMarch.

I think I might also send a piece out somewhere about movies and the romance genre. I need to add more about masculinity. But I really want to enjoy how I see myself in the two characters of Eternal sunshine, the flip sides of ADHD personality.

Well I want to be good to myself. Things Are less anxious as they were. Of course it's week four. I still have that planning ahead to do. But a lot of the things I'm laying down right now I want to make sure are going to be reused in the classes I teach.

For religion and film

 There are two projects I should close

The Batman as religious experience

Movies is Magic A heuristic approach to identifying or creating films

Connect kill bill with masculinity

 So I'm already thinking how the Kill Bill module and reconciling is tied then to moving to the QT toxic masculinity debate

trailer for the book

 I was in KC yesterday for my annual getaway in between Christmas and New Year's Eve

and I was hit with the idea to collage elements from the Nicole Kidman AMC 

with my Unbreakable riffting and IN A WORLD writing 

Decmber 19 work as a sendoff into breaktime

 Today was a good sendoff into break

 

I worked a little on EEAAO, which might be the merger into cinema therapy

Another Elegy for another mother  a filmography

Men Who Pay Tribute To Their Mothers

My Life with two moms at the Movies 

And I separated back My Fifty Years at the Movies

Labyrinth Work 

 

 

A-ha moment

 It looks like I won't need to think of big issues as having their own long sections, except that grief one, it looks like more of it will be smaller movie things with the collage work of quotes, movies, and memoir

Like the mom tribute, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes with mom Sondra

for my index cards

work on

Spielberg and Mendes tributes to mothers

bad movies are good medicine: Eureka, I should take all of these longer quotes and put them in a note section, then just highlight the movies. Like I can summarize what people are saying but then have the academic stuff in the notes

Eeaao, take research, place into single sentences with a

For [this person], the film is [a way to heal from ] : quote.

another elegy for another mother 

troubles with masculinity