I love
school. I guess that’s one of the reasons
I enjoy teaching. I end up learning as
much or more than the students and I get to be engaged in the dialogue of the
intellect. It’s a form of exploration.
Indiana Jones never found a golden artifact more precious that a student’s
dawning realization, a discovery of new terrain, landscapes of life never
considered.
So I went to
school-for-a-day last week, a writer’s symposium at the local community college. A workshop in the morning and one in the
afternoon, one from column A, two from … you get the idea. I took ‘Blogging’ in the morning and ‘Writing
from the Dark’ in the afternoon. The
later one spoke to my creative side. But
more about that later.
The Blogging seminar opened a lot of doors
about this endeavor I embarked upon with you all a while ago. The class led me to look at what I’d been
doing with a new eye. It led me to ask
questions of myself in concrete terms ranging from what I call this collection
of musings, to what script I use to write.
The interesting thing is that many of the questions it led me to ask
were not part of the discussion. But the
discussion going on in the room was only tangential to the discussion going on
inside my head. And my conclusions
shared the same vectors.
So, I’m going to
make some changes in the Blog. If I can
actually pull that off without causing a blackout in the northeast corridor, it
will be a personal record. I hope you
don’t mind the changes. Actually, I hope
you actually enjoy them. But probably
more to the point, I realized that I need to be going tangential more. It’s the way I learn best. And as Joni Mitchell says, “Life is for
learning…”
