Our Professional Learning Community is reading ARTS WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND by Eric Jensen, and I was just thinking today about how music, visual arts, and movement all collaborate in my brain sometime. Paintings/collages have movement, color, balance, and show our thoughts or moods. I have been looking at others' websites, blogs, and art, and I am moved by so much of it. I can only hope that something of mine will have a deep effect on someone else at some point.
So I post just one tiny piece of art tonight and I hope that it speaks to you. It is a quote I adore. I used a scan of some end papers of a rare book in my collection in order to frame the quote. I printed this and it is on my classroom door. It is my mantra today, I believe, having just been discussing the book I mentioned, and talking to colleagues about the difference between hearing and listening. My colleague, a dance educator, told me that one child in her last period class answered the question: "So what is the music telling you?" by saying offhandedly, "Oh I don't listen to the music!" Arrrrrgggh. Sometimes we must be VERY quiet.
So quiet I will be. I am on my way to Texas for a class reunion and to see my family. I will be quiet at least on the plane ride.
Lynda
