2 new favs

We have been really "burning the Netflix oil" lately...it's a great, easy, cheap sort of stay-in date night. Two of our recent pics have quickly flown to the top ten list:

Eagle vs. Shark~


Every review I read of this movie says it's like Napoleon Dynamite. I didn't think so. It's much more complicated, probably because it's dealing with grown-ups who are acting like high schoolers, instead of just dealing with high schoolers. The awkwardness and tenderness are thrown in much greater relief, and the affect is much more satisfying. I thought about this movie for several days after I saw it. Lovely.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind~


This is a Hayao Miyazaki film that was made in 1985, but it is still one of the most indelible of his films I've seen. An epic of the highest order, it doesn't drag the way some epics tend to...which made it a thoroughly enjoyable ride!

slow burn

My brain feels like this piece by Tom Price looks. A slow, glowing, burning, thing of beauty. I should be writing chapters right now...but I'm here, free-associating. A chat with one of my supervisors, JDJ, has me musing on his three "God-words" that come up so often in teaching:
1. Hope
2. Trust
3. Identity

These play against each other, interact and produce tension in us and in our students~we're all trying to figure this stuff out. I give my students deadlines. I have my own to meet. I sit down to help with revision, paragraph by paragraph, while I have less than 24hrs to be brilliant. To explode into light and warmth.