A great QAF fan fiction story told on one sheet of paper hung on the fridge. A shopping list.
I love the creativity of Julad, the writer. Quinn22 later took up telling stories about Brian and Justin as a series of scrapbook like pages. Love Adventures.
Needing something in a DVD that I didn't need to watch all the time, could move my head and neck and stretch my neck and shoulders some, I picked Old Friends the DVD of Simon and Garfunkel's reunion concert. A mending of hurts and disagreements from years past. They were friends since childhood, ages 11 and 12. Made their first record at 16 with a song that imitated the Everly Brothers who they invited to appear during this concert.
Watching Simon play is a beauty unto itself. His fingers just seem to move gently on the guitar and press on the frets as gently as a man making love. Obviously his passion and love and so is singing with Garfunkel.
Watching the photos they show of the years that pass in their lives, and listening to the songs Simon wrote as they sing them, I could see the autobiographical parts of their lives and their work together and apart. The incredible musicians who appear with them in these same but updated versions of my favorites, and some not so favorite, is a joy to hear. I want my sound system hooked up, so I can still stimulate the frequencies they use in music. One musician, long blonde haired, is, as are many gifted musicians, can play almost the most amazing array of instruments.
Oprah said it's the planning and creating and gathering the concert together that is the joy, the actual concert itself is just the end result played out and not the stimulating part of the show. Hmmmmm...... now i understand why it was the lesson planning, the creation of a story each and every period of each and every day, and why the unending frustration when it was blocked or obstructed by the behavior of one or two kids, or having the office ring my room 15 times in one period looking for a child in another classroom. No wonder I was angry and showed it. It was ridiculous and mean; the people on the team knew that they would be last to be interrupted and had lesson plans they'd done for years, with tweaking, and I was trying out new ones each year. No wonder. It's a miracle I did as well as I did in the year I'm thinking of.
The passion of teaching is the creating of a moment in class and in my classrooms, a teachable moment with different children each period since I spent a great deal of time with individuals, small groups, quizzes and teaching to the results of those quizzes. I didn't realize that more was required in the way of going over the material to get it internalized in the students. Oh, I did expect a great deal. The average students in my class blossomed.
