Trickster

 https://youtu.be/aL0V1MsOeFM?si=Cxccub-m0BPJWiVp

https://www.jcf.org/post/trickstering-casablanca-and-resistance?mc_cid=69392d8813&mc_eid=de3bf080d3

Poetry books

 https://a.co/d/dqvNsoy

Book

 

Myth & Mythmaking

By Henry Alexander Murray

Depression in movies

 I haven’t listened yet but I like this podcast 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hilarious-world-of-depression/id1181589175?i=1000475691309

Definitely part of the book

 Maureen Murdock who I discovered through teaching mythology has a new book about using myth and memoir to tell one's truth which leads to healing. This has been my experiences with film as a way to feel safe and self-care to then poetry writing as a way to move outside of myself. The truth of the adverse childhood experiences I went through which is a wonderful way to be sensitive to myself.

Mythology religion and psychology

Shame

Shadow self

Myth making memoir maureen murdoch

 Myth making and memoir

https://youtu.be/fEtHpYbQf4E?si=D9REt8lRvVeT0hzJ

Book to get

 Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD: A Brief Treatment Approach for Mental Health Professionals

Book by Brian P. Marx and Denise M. Sloan

In Omaha

 As Rilo Kiley made the journey to the city based on Connor Oberst and those who made Azure Ray recording downtown and whatever film theaters are going on with film streams and the connections of artists creation

Arrested Development

 In the midst of naviagting my late teens and twenties, I believed the healing of my childhood meant engaging with what I could do with my earned money: collecting.

 I now say as a joke, a collector is really a hoarder who wants to come to terms with how collecting serves the collector.

 When the term arrested development came a public term, maybe through the TV show?, it was a new use of language to focus through.

Suncoast Era, Gen X, and the Losses We Felt in the Seventies and Eighties

Obstacles for students

 We only have so much time, so trying to push yourself into being creative is barrier making

It's an assignment, so it's already a resistance

Some students really aren't interested in poetry but they enrolled in the class anyway

Students are used to Turning something in and getting a grade for it. They aren't used to really writing something they would want to read or want to ride. Or that they would even have written by a deadline.

I'm asking them to share emotions with using words that they wouldn't normally share. That the art has to be there.

Art and sharing feelings are never encouraged in classroom settings. They are not often graded on. Again, the grades!

Students are more focused on what they need to do for homework then they are on the experience of being in a classroom where they can be themselves.

How books mean to help

 This one of my best writing practices is to have a pile of books beside me.

Even if I feel stuck, I can pick up a book and in no time at all I start writing again.

Engaging with the language itself changes my own way of thinking, that then words that are coming from somewhere come out in a way that's different than they would.

Of course the prompts are also wonderful.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mondaysarefree/p/exercise-001-the-list?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2dy8e9

Check the sources for: Here’s Sontag’s list of beliefs, list of likes and dislikes, and list of rules for parenting. 

Essayism by Brian Dillon