Doodle along

Class day, packing it in.

I try to promote creativity and imagination in thought and communication as much as I can when I teach. We've been talking a lot the past week about geography and narrative, how both of these things are literal and metaphorical. After all we create our own geographies of place, our own compass points and maps of the world around us internally. Likewise with narrative, the stories we subscribe to and filters we see the world through. Anyway, enough abstractions. I got everyone to make maps of the field for fun as a morning creativity exercise. I'm talking like the old school maps from early explorers complete with undefined obscure mountains and coastlines, mythical mysterious lands, dragons and fantastical beasts rising up in the far reaches of the ocean. Ends of the Earth. Be creative!

They were outstanding and we did a cool clotheline framing of them in the living room to liven up the house. This one is mine. Rumi Loma straight out of Jesse land. Taking it back to the old school. Don't ever forget to daydream and doodle.