This poem is the result of a poetry workshop assignment from the course I’m signed up for with Buddy Wakefield. Our meetings are each Sunday, and this week, our task was to write a warning label. It has not been reviewed by the community yet. Feel free to leave your feedback below. Be well there~ Warning! I’m a sharp-tongued artist with a penchant for kale Willing to build art, direct, at you. From books to sculptures to lesson-plans yo, I’m…
Creating my next book has me considering a Frame Narrative style for the fifteen/sixteen chapters in six or so main sections that I’ll be putting together a bit like the last book with the pictures of China. And, so what that made me think about is the Voice. The voice of the book needs to have particular ears perked for it, in my mind anyway. You’ll notice that I mentioned many who helped with that in the last one. While…
So, school has been busy. Good busy, but busy nonetheless. I accidentally started studying the Thai language and am apparently enrolled and doing fairly well in a Chinese language course that I already have credit for, and apparently achieved the minor last term, but hey, that’s cool. Languages are fun. Loving how Thai is built~ They wrap vowels around consonants and are grammatically similar to English with the SVO thang. Good stuff. Sticking with Chinese solidly though. So much good…
As my most recent history is with the Chinese system, that’s where my knowledge-base and tool-reflexes lay, but I won’t recommend that as a target this year as they have a system of isolation and quarantine that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. That said, depending on the goals of this student, there are still a lot of places to start that are more general than not. I used to use https://www.eslcafe.com/quite a lot, but that was many years ago, and it…
These days are full of reading, processing that material and creating projects that are the result of that material and other matters that are alternatively associated with my courses this term. Working towards a teaching degree is a major undertaking ~ Requires my focus and attention, away from other things. I am very much enjoying being fully engaged, and the fact that I’ll be able to put it all into use for others at the end of this side-track in…
Trilogy of Playa Magic, by Jimmer Shine With introduction by Jim Jordan Forgetting to write as a writer is something of a crime. Judging by the regularity of my blog, I could stand accused… Yet, I don’t feel guilty of anything. I have a brand new book you can purchase here. Also, I’ve been experiencing: New languages, Many people of various cultures, Oblectation. My new book, Sesame Glazed China, is now available for sale at local bookstores on their websites….
Okay, so as with all seasons, this one is tempered with hope, struggles, a feeling of newness, its connection to history, possibilities, and limitations. Completing a term of study with two A’s and a B is a pleasant achievement. The B was in a course that was incredibly difficult for me and required so much time that if I were to do it all over again… I might choose differently. Hah! The English courses were great. Thankfully, the next course…
In an unfinished zone of the interwebs, there is a blog-post from your Jim. Follow the link by clicking the logo posted below for Oblectation Press’s as-yet-unfinished website, where ”There’s always room for you at Lorum Ipsum!”
This year has been_ well… Yes. It has. There are many people saying that this year was tougher or kind, rougher or fine… Truth of the matter is that something to the tune of 7 billion people had 365 days and that leads to at least 2.555 trillion days’ worth of experiences. Think about that. One day to the next, a better or tougher day for each individual. Then, maybe a single day can have more than one way to…
I was going to share a new post that I wrote today, but found one that I am going to be installing from before I left China instead. It is a found-post that didn’t get uploaded. Following that, I’ll comment on a few of the things I mentioned and include a trimmed down version of what I’d prepared, since I largely said six months ago, what I wrote this afternoon. I think one of the reasons I didn’t post it…