I've loved this discussion thread - so many beautiful observations. And you've both made me want to go back and read everything ever written by Virginia Woolf! I really loved your reflection Manami - "What are the moments we hold on to, and why? What experiences do we revisit to try to make meaning out of? What do they say about the people we are now?". What a perfect story seed.
I've loved this discussion thread - so many beautiful observations. And you've both made me want to go back and read everything ever written by Virginia Woolf! I really loved your reflection Manami - "What are the moments we hold on to, and why? What experiences do we revisit to try to make meaning out of? What do they say about the people we are now?". What a perfect story seed.
Yes!!! Manami & Mikhaelya, and all: Why these seeds? (Why those moments with x...?) When we did George's exercise with our chronology of people, places, moments, et al over time... What keeps rising or trying to.
I literally just worked with students on "story seeds" - noticing them, listening to them, and making the first steps to put them down on paper, if only in phrases, until they reveal themselves; eventually a butterfly can break out of even the tightest cocoon.
I've loved this discussion thread - so many beautiful observations. And you've both made me want to go back and read everything ever written by Virginia Woolf! I really loved your reflection Manami - "What are the moments we hold on to, and why? What experiences do we revisit to try to make meaning out of? What do they say about the people we are now?". What a perfect story seed.
Yes!!! Manami & Mikhaelya, and all: Why these seeds? (Why those moments with x...?) When we did George's exercise with our chronology of people, places, moments, et al over time... What keeps rising or trying to.
I literally just worked with students on "story seeds" - noticing them, listening to them, and making the first steps to put them down on paper, if only in phrases, until they reveal themselves; eventually a butterfly can break out of even the tightest cocoon.
P.S. Seeds do not exactly relate to a cocoon. Bad connection. I should stick to the plant world. :)