{"id":7914,"date":"2020-04-23T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2020-04-23T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:45:44","slug":"in-the-middle-of-this-continent-in-the-middle-of-our-time-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2020\/04\/23\/in-the-middle-of-this-continent-in-the-middle-of-our-time-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Middle of This Continent \/ In the Middle of Our Time on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7915 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/files\/2020\/04\/giphy-2-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"444\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, come on: it&#8217;s not that bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp;<em> Outer Space<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what do you need to do to prepare the space around you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2.&nbsp; <em>Inner Space<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what do you need to do to prepare the space within you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3.&nbsp; This is an interpretive drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Who are you looking forward to seeing in person after physical-distancing restrictions are lifted?<\/p>\n<p>Draw you, Ivan Brunetti-style, with that person (or persons), Ivan Brunetti-style.<\/p>\n<p>With your Ivan Brunetti-ing, think: what are the defining physical characteristics of you?&nbsp; Of this person (or these people)?&nbsp; (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?&nbsp; How would they know it is them?<\/p>\n<p>This is the music to listen to while drawing &#8211; you have about three minutes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joni Mitchell - Stay In Touch\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/plHOohZ7XsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>4.&nbsp; Title: Joni Mitchell &#8211; &#8220;Stay in Touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp; Date it.<\/p>\n<p>6.&nbsp; Email it to me today, or email it tomorrow with all five of your Joni-Fest drawings.&nbsp; You might consider emailing it to the person (or people) you drew, too.&nbsp; Think what a nice start to their day that would be. : )<\/p>\n<p><em>Interesting fact:<\/em> the above song was written after Joni was reunited with the daughter she had given up for adoption thirty-two years earlier.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s the heartbreakingly beautiful song she wrote after signing the adoption papers in the 1960s, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jIzJnBWovOs\">Little Green<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a short clip about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nfrqMXuIU_U\">their reunion<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pHCFOcnBylQ\">a clip from an interview<\/a><\/strong> in which she discusses getting pregnant while in art school and the factors that led to the adoption.&nbsp; And if you&#8217;re a music-lover or art-lover or a lover of social history and you want to go all in, here&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pEJuiZN3jI8\">the interview in its entirety<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are not exploring the above, now would be a great time to make your schedule for the day.&nbsp; Can you spend time with all of our on-going projects &#8211; <em>The Black Cauldron<\/em>, Wagamese, Science research, Math &#8211; and also build in exercise breaks and time for reading, mental health-boosting activities, social interaction, outside time, and laziness?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember: I&#8217;ll be asking to see your chosen system of time management tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>See you at 10:00!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7917 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/files\/2020\/04\/giphy-3-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/p>\n<p>Oops.&nbsp; I meant this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7918 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/files\/2020\/04\/tenor.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/p>\n<p>PS: &#8220;Joni Mitchell.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning. Oh, come on: it&#8217;s not that bad. Steps: 1.&nbsp; Outer Space what do you need to do to prepare the space around you? 2.&nbsp; Inner Space what do you need to do to prepare the space within you? 3.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/2020\/04\/23\/in-the-middle-of-this-continent-in-the-middle-of-our-time-on-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7921,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions\/7921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}