Two fun dreams last night
Apr. 18th, 2008 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonPatrick Stewart was instructing me in sword-fighting. Needless to say, it was VERY hawt. And I did, in reality, learn a thing or two, and not only in my head, my body remembered it in the morning. So, stuff I already knew but had forgotten on a conscious level, or a direct link to the akashic record? Dunno. I suspect the trigger was an article I had read yesterday about Stewart's recent and career Shakespearian work (as an aside, I got to see him perform some years ago in Washington Shakespeare Company's "mirror-image" Othello, where he was the lead and the rest of the cast was black, OMG yum) We were working with rapier and sword-and-dagger/two sword styles, so the Shakespearian/stage fighting aspect makes some sense. Take-away message: now that winter is over (much snow shoveling, plowing, lugging cords of wood, etc) I need to get back to some form of regular exercise, my body is aching for more vigorous activity, and...oh, right, was talking to my Ravishing Partner last night about getting my son into a local martial arts school (likely either aikido or karate), and both of us possibly joining him. Check.
I was the new headmaster of a small and well-respected private school, and was being shown around, introduced to the kids and staff, and questioned about my plans. I came up with a series of thoughts about ways to innovate, including a 4-day class schedule with Fridays dedicated to special field trips, hands-on internship work with local leaders in their fields, and long-weekend intensive collaborative art projects (both performing/performance art and decorative arts projects to be performed and installed on campus). I have in fact had a senior administrative spot in a large public school district (180,000 kids), have written extensively about educational theory, praxis and technology, and have talked periodically about the possibility of home-schooling my son (especially for Junior High), but I didn't initially see any thematic connection with the first dream...until I remembered the X-Men movie and Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier. Oh, right, pop culture ;> So is there a possible future where I help put together a school for fellow unconventional thinkers, oddballs and mutants? ;> I guess we'll see. If I do, I wonder if there's any chance I can hire Patrick Stewart to teach theatre and stage fighting...
I was the new headmaster of a small and well-respected private school, and was being shown around, introduced to the kids and staff, and questioned about my plans. I came up with a series of thoughts about ways to innovate, including a 4-day class schedule with Fridays dedicated to special field trips, hands-on internship work with local leaders in their fields, and long-weekend intensive collaborative art projects (both performing/performance art and decorative arts projects to be performed and installed on campus). I have in fact had a senior administrative spot in a large public school district (180,000 kids), have written extensively about educational theory, praxis and technology, and have talked periodically about the possibility of home-schooling my son (especially for Junior High), but I didn't initially see any thematic connection with the first dream...until I remembered the X-Men movie and Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier. Oh, right, pop culture ;> So is there a possible future where I help put together a school for fellow unconventional thinkers, oddballs and mutants? ;> I guess we'll see. If I do, I wonder if there's any chance I can hire Patrick Stewart to teach theatre and stage fighting...
