Thursday, September 13, 2007

in response to others

I owe this my first blog experience to Natalie Smith, a fellow blogger and teacher who is more practical than I am. I teach English and love to think, ask questions, and ponder. Unfortunately, life happens fast these days so I'm learning to process quicker. Some people process life to live; others make the purchase, pay the bill, leave the conversation with ease. I linger over life in more ways than I'm proud of, so I seek to harness that and see it as a tool. I'm glad people are different, and I hope others rub off on me, and I them. So, to all you decision making, math understanding people, I give my thoughts for yours (this all inspired by Natalie Smith, a third grade teacher, and Eric Bartz, a math teacher.


Natalie, this is where I need your help. Here are my phrases that explain my hatred for making them:

Decisions

Too definite
Strategic starves flexibility
and
stifles creativity.
Processing for me equals
Feeling equals experience equals
Something real for me to remember.
or
Losing something
due to deciding
just not having anything
left to think
about.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

you were born a writer, jane.

By My Pen said...
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Eric Bartz said...

Your comment "...Feeling equals experience equals Something real for me to remember...." Sound like a Metephor of learing.

I'd probalbly switch the order. For me the order is Experience, real,feeling and then remember.

Though sometimes I have a feeling (intuition)first then the experience makes it real before the feeling of accomplishment then I will remember

Where is your 2nd post? Don't you have any like time after you like grade your papers?


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