Today I was glad to have my Ipod because I got the chance to listen to Green Day's Wake me up when September ends. Love the song, but it alone did not inspire this long overdue posting. The month of September is all about new beginnings. A time of peace and reflection on the summer that has crept away too soon. This September, my mind is unsettled with the ideas and experiences I've gobbled up. Yet, the coming of my favorite season carries with it, new perspective as well as new promise. My intention here is not to get all sappy and melodramatic; however, if this past summer has taught me anything, I've learned to free the writer within. So, here is my freeing brain write: writing workshop, journals, multimodality, creativity, habits of mind, New Literacies, certification, Voice Thread, prezi, Google docs, Disney world, NCTE, NWP, blogging, writing, gifted education, multiple intelligences, first day of kindergarten, Forest Lawn, inspiration, digital storytelling, creative problem solving... and I come up for air.
Sorry to go off on a tangent like that, but I am in a new frame of mind, in which I don't hold back and I write like a writer, not an editor. What does such a blurt mean? I think it encompasses what I have inside me at the present moment. It represents what is conducting my thoughts and guiding the here and now of Asia. I am making sense of the places I've been while simultaneously trying to figure out what it all means for who I am and who I am becoming. Perhaps, when I look back on this posting I may say that I am proud of myself for writing what I wanted without thinking about how I will be judged. Then again, I may say that I was crazy to have posted at 12:56 am, on the threshold of crash and burn. Whatever thoughts my hindsight will lay out, I would have left an imprint in history on the first day of my most cherished season, in the month I dedicate to new beginnings.
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