Digression. Okay, Miami Vice flashback. Russ Ballard's song "Voices" is playing as Crockett and Tubbs are taking their Cigarette offshore racing boat out to the Bahamas in pursuit of bad guy du jour. They are moving full tilt and the camera pans away showing a little boat in a big ocean, the soundtrack blaring, fade to commercial, and we're out! End of digression.
I too was moved by the Romano piece. At first my mind conjured up Ray Romano but then it was quickly dispelled by the piece. What a perfect example of voice. I found myself captivated by the tale and pulled into his family. I don't know what else he writes but I would love to read more.
My brain and body are still playing catch-up, off-kilter today.
Spandel's writing was as usual, interesting. She makes a lot of good points but it is the practice of these things that will be the important part. I don't know if I will be putting any of it into practice but can imagine the struggle to use creativity and emphasize the individual within my perception of current academics. If everyone is teaching for the test, then who gives a crap about voice. I couldn't live w/o it in my work or the reading of others but if we are still talking about this stuff as what should be done and we are 40 years on? As the Joker said in the first Batman movie, "This town needs an enema!"
Smith, I fell behind in reading, but got through some and agree with my brain not liking to be bored. I can't just sit. I have a problem with meditation. I would like to do it more for its therapeutic qualities but can't seem to find time for the things I need to do let alone the things I desire to do. I also got to the part of babies inventing language to learn the language. My 1.5 y/o niece has an amazing vocabulary and even playacts the conversations, but the language is none we understand. She, though, seems perfectly content in the language of her world.
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