Morning.

Oh, come on: it’s not that bad.

Steps:

1.  Outer Space

• what do you need to do to prepare the space around you?

2.  Inner Space

• what do you need to do to prepare the space within you?

3.  This is an interpretive drawing.

Who are you looking forward to seeing in person after physical-distancing restrictions are lifted?

Draw you, Ivan Brunetti-style, with that person (or persons), Ivan Brunetti-style.

With your Ivan Brunetti-ing, think: what are the defining physical characteristics of you?  Of this person (or these people)?  (Physical characteristics include shapes of body, face, and hair, but also things like habitual body language and/or items of clothing or other objects.) How would we know it is you?  How would they know it is them?

This is the music to listen to while drawing – you have about three minutes:

4.  Title: Joni Mitchell – “Stay in Touch.”

5.  Date it.

6.  Email it to me today, or email it tomorrow with all five of your Joni-Fest drawings.  You might consider emailing it to the person (or people) you drew, too.  Think what a nice start to their day that would be. : )

Interesting fact: the above song was written after Joni was reunited with the daughter she had given up for adoption thirty-two years earlier.  Here’s the heartbreakingly beautiful song she wrote after signing the adoption papers in the 1960s, “Little Green.”  Here’s a short clip about their reunion.  Here’s a clip from an interview in which she discusses getting pregnant while in art school and the factors that led to the adoption.  And if you’re a music-lover or art-lover or a lover of social history and you want to go all in, here’s the interview in its entirety.  

If you are not exploring the above, now would be a great time to make your schedule for the day.  Can you spend time with all of our on-going projects – The Black Cauldron, Wagamese, Science research, Math – and also build in exercise breaks and time for reading, mental health-boosting activities, social interaction, outside time, and laziness?  

Remember: I’ll be asking to see your chosen system of time management tomorrow.

See you at 10:00!

Oops.  I meant this:

PS: “Joni Mitchell.”