you're the only thing in your way: cloud cult

What is this song teaching?
What lines stand out to you most? Why?

How do you deal with stress? Life?


You are going to make up the final verse for this song. Fill in the gaps:

__________,  baby, ___________, until __________________.

__________,  baby, ___________, until __________________.

__________,  baby, ___________, until __________________.

__________,  baby, ___________, until __________________.

__________,  baby, ___________, until __________________.

__________,  baby, ___________.
You are the __________, the __________, and the ____________
Nothin can get in your way, you've come too far to care what they say
Now you're only thing in your way.
You're the only thing in your way.

THE WISDOM

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” 

― Gautama Buddha

 

 

sounds like somewhere: lil and mad

Someday I'll find the right words
And I'll bloom where I was planted long ago

Ken Robinson: How Schools Kill Creativity

1. How do reconcile the issues he presents here?
2. How should school be in your opinion?
3. In your opinion, what is the most important thing you learn in school?

Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

1. Why is vulnerability important in your life? Do you feel like it would benefit your life?
2. What could you be vulnerable about that you feel would improve your life or others' lives?
3. What are we scared of when it comes to vulnerability?
4. How do we learn to be vulnerable?

Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius

1. When have you written something, created something, done something that merited an "Allah, Allah, Allah?"


2. How does your "daemon" or "genius" work with you?


3. What are the struggles of a creative life or creating in general? What are you fears?

Parul Sehgal: An Ode to Envy

Before I Die Project: Candy Chang

http://beforeidie.cc/site/about/

What is Education?

I am teaching this documentary and doing an accompanying project with my students based on Vik Muniz's powerful social art project on garbage in Brasil. I truly was different after watching this film. Its called "The Waste Land" directed by Lucy Walker. I need to do things like this. It is in my heart to do them and while I know that my path with always come back to teaching in more formal classrooms, my life will not reach its full purpose until I spend time finding and learning from and documenting the stories of the people of this Earth. I have to meet them and love them and know their lives. Teaching is nothing without these stories. We spend so much time teaching about things that narrow our view to a single test or way of thinking. we start believing at our root that a letter grade is the most important thing in our lives. we begin to value ourselves and others based on performance at a desk and we become a patch of 2'x2'x6' nothingness. Strong words, I know, but education is not that. education is not copying worksheets and filling in small bubbles with a #2 lead pencil. It is spending time in a trash heap learning to love people who have become the fringe of society. it is involving them in something greater than themselves so they can step back and see how narrow they once saw their own lives. This CAN happen in our classrooms. we CAN teach our students who they are. we CAN show them how to step back from cares that mean nothing to the depths of what life has to offer. this is not idealism, this is truth. and so few of us are brave enough to teach it. we are scared of what it might do to us. and to them.

mistakes

"Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever." ~ Neil Gaiman

MLK, JR.

What do you know about Martin Luther King, Jr.?

How did he stand up for others?At what cost? And how did he affect our lives today? When and how have you stood up for your self or others?

"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

What does this mean?
How do we affect others?
How does this apply to our art class?

summer feelings

Summer feelings from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

He captures what kind of feeling here? How does he do that?

How can YOU capture feelings through images?

The heart of LIFE

from Albert E.

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us...Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

-Albert Einstein

important: Dallas Clayton

walt whitman

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

-Walt Whitman

What in the world causes you to wonder? Gives you awe? Makes you amazed?

How does it make you feel to be near the things that make you wonder?

What is true confidence? What does it mean to really have confidence? Not cocky or arrogant--confident?


Confidence Etymology:
early 15c., from Middle French confidence or directly from Latin confidentia,
"firmly trusting, bold," prp. of confidere "to have full trust or reliance," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + fidere "to trust"