Mother Antonia: Read some of Liberating Sanctuary. Organized materials from my visit to the CSC archives. Everything Looks Like A Face: Looks like the new outline is a go.
Category: The Project Diary
Six months of posting progress on plays in the hopper.
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Stuck late at the day job, so not much activity today. I did get to the library to check out a copy of Liberating Sanctuary, so I’ll count that as an iota of work on Mother Antonia.
not much, you?
Mother Antonia: started drafting. Erika: Watched some videos.
connections
Everything Looks Like A Face: wrote a new outline based on the mosaic idea. Mother Antonia: read an interview with a sister who took a trip to New York with M. Antonia in the 1930s. Mother taught her how to network.
tiles, cont’d.
Mother Antonia: Got a little tour of CSC’s Our Lady of Victory chapel from Prof. Maryann Brenden, who has studied both it and M. Antonia, who caused it to be built. The chapel is lavish with tile work by Ernest Batchelder, a leader of the Arts and Crafts movement. I’ve read remarks to the effect...
little fragments
Everything Looks Like A Face: Meeting with Elizabeth. We decide the piece will be built like a mosaic. An arrangement of little fragments. Thought of titling this entry “tesserae,” but evidently that word belongs to The Hunger Games now. Mother Antonia: Took notes.
positive reinforcement
Mother Antonia: had lunch with a friend who went to St. Kate’s and talked with her about her experience. Everything Looks Like A Face: exchanged Draft comments with Elizabeth. Erika: watched video & did problems on Khan Academy. I’m 15 skills away from the Sally Ride badge. Will I gain anything tangible from acquiring this...
be sure of your aim
Everything Looks Like a Face: Made an outline, worked on interleaving two scenes. Mother Antonia: Looked at some of the Antonia McHugh materials CSC has online. Here’s a speech of hers on educational practice. In her own words: One who undertakes the leadership of young women in a private college today, must be sure of...
pageants, enlightening and otherwise
Mother Antonia: Reading S. Teresa Toomey’s Chapters for a History of the College of St. Catherine St. Paul Minnesota. She discusses S. Antonia’s encouragement of outdoor pageants. “Perhaps she was moved thereto by the widely acclaimed annual pageants at Carleton College.” Some of these pageants were “not very enlightening as to their meaning.” Everything Looks...
forging ahead
Everything Looks Like A Face: worked on getting stuff into Draft, the collaboration tool we are using. Revised; forged ahead a little bit. Erika: Did problems on Khan Academy. Considered titling this post “f'(x) > 0 (but only just)”.