Start first

Little House on the Prairie and Kansas City, Leslie scalapino and film, Theseus and my boys

finish Strike Out

going back to image-based for pages

Put the Royals Stadium changes so that the park circles around next to some of the agent orange investigations and next to reconnections with my father

How about the baseball strike and firing next to the va's denial of Agent Orange things next to overall denial and cutting off

Scan the national archives for any photos with Vietnam baseball and PTSD

Agent Orange

did a few more blackouts did a few more blackouts using the Pentagon papers

 

Family Resemblance

As inspiration,  this is an amazing book

Places for sabbatical

In addition to the four-hour power block for study and writing, I want to locate places I would normally not go. There are several in KC I would like to visit, but even Studio 831 in NOTO will be a great place when Barbara allows me the space. I was thinking about KU, too! I would love to visit the Ronald Johnson files at least once! I was also thinking of the Alamo as a workspace, using the lobby booths on the lower level. Wouldn't it be fantastic if they got to know me there?

I should also ask the Equality House!

Successful Sabbatical Notes

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/05/11/making-most-your-sabbatical-year-essay

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Going-on-Sabbatical/44942

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/02/15/essay-how-enjoy-sabbatical

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/08/22/essay-how-plan-sabbatical

Poets Writing About Children

Rachel Zucker, Mothers and The Pedestrians, etc.

Mary Austin Speaker, Ceremony

Dana Ward, The Crisis of Infinite Worlds

Jennifer Moxley, Druthers

Gabriel Fried, The Children Are Reading

Rebecca Wolff, The King (note: she might be editor for FENCE, but I did not like this one)

Feeling Uncreative

I am posting this a week after my other mother passed away, and how I was thankful to have this time on Earth with her. She "got me" as a parent, and I realize how much I was shaped by her, too.

However, in this grieving time, I had up times of writing and low times of feeling dull.

I want to remind myself that in the dull times I should be good to myself. I know that these times can be regenerative.

I also know that being bored can lead to creativity.

So this is the reminder. Be good to yourself, and all of those cliches.