Week 1 (first full week) Day 3
Time to knuckle down. Today is the real beginning of the week with the kindergarten arriving on Tuesday and day one presenting our electives to the middle school. Being excited and yet calm is is quite a dichotomy of feelings! Usually there isn't enough time to extract the emotions from ideas being the one factor which sometimes inhibits my progress. If I could master being able to subtract my emotions while acknowledging their existence, perhaps I could be a little less circumspect in my work. Taking risks usually leads to reflective learning for me. When unable to give myself time to try new ideas, the more there is a loss of confidence experienced. By human nature we all need and crave acceptance so that going the opposite direction (and trying to be an independent thinker) often is the antithesis of that need.
Starting my essay work this week includes beginning to articulate my ideas and get them down in writing. It terrifies me to pin down one idea and develop it but with Dr. Risner's advise, I hope to find ways of corralling my disparate thoughts and creative impulses.
