Everything Looks Like A Face: Meeting with Elizabeth. Porting stuff from Draft to Google Drive. Making the scenes – the tiles of the mosaic – as small and self-contained as possible.
Tag: Everything Looks Like A Face
A work of music-theatre in collaboration with composer Elizabeth Alexander.
craft
Everything Looks Like A Face: Emailing with Elizabeth. Mother Antonia: Taking notes on Ryan & Wolkerstorfer. Here’s a quote I like from Carroll, Cavallaro & Doherty (Liberating Sanctuary). John Fleming quotes S. Jeanne Marie Bonnett, who somewhat reluctantly had to learn to do crafts when taking courses in Occupational Therapy. I love woodwork. St. Joseph...
public speaking
Everything Looks Like a Face: responded to Elizabeth’s thoughts on Mira’s grammar-school speech about her Favorite Place.
this never happens
Everything Looks Like A Face: drafted 4 scenes.
sketching
Everything Looks Like a Face: Sketched out a scene (“Pieces don’t fit”).
assembling little fragments
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.
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.
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...