It’s been the best of years, it’s been the worst of years. I’ve done lots, and have not done more. One thing I have done every day this year though is the Daily Create. @NomadWarMachine @dogtrax @ronald_2008 Congratulations! #DS106 pic.twitter.com/77DprNL06h — john johnston (@johnjohnston) December 31, 2018 It’s been fun, it has done me good, and I would highly recommend it to you all. Happy New Year, all.
As I read Anna’s post about how she is struggling to find the patience to read, I thought about how I knit. Specifically, I thought about how often I turn my knitting projects into races – how instead of enjoying the process of knitting, I rush to get them finished and off the needles. Here’s an example: the shawl above is one that I started in order to have some easy knitting for when my mind or my hands were tired, […]
There’s so much emphasis at the moment in active learning, often accompanied with the (implicit) belief that this needs to be a collaborative activity. I think both are important, and also enjoyable – but sometimes peace and solitude are just as productive, if not more. Today I have spent time in my kitchen away from social media – chopping fruit and veg for relish, stirring together chocolate and nuts for fudge, churning yogurt and vanilla for ice cream and then […]
Today’s dots – a freshly baked batch of oatcakes. Time is of the essence with these – they need to be quickly mixed together and rolled out while the dough is still warm, else the mixture sets and becomes unworkable. In addition, the more it is rolled out, the harder it is to use, so these are imperfect – quickly cut out and put onto a baking tray. They won’t last long anyway – they are too tasty, we have […]
Let yourself be drawn… from Sandy Brown Jensen on Vimeo.My first vertical IGTV video edited on Videoleap
Hangin with my Sis from Sandy Brown Jensen on Vimeo.The day after Christmas at her home in Brush Prairie, WA. This is my first video shot and edited in vertical to fit IGTV.
We’re all thinking about dots. Sheri reminds us that this is not a new conversation. Terry responds and starts teasing out the metaphor. Dots and lines, or overlapping circles? Maybe both, maybe more. We don’t have the words to represent to ourselves this complex conceptual scheme. (A recurring memory: in a philosophy of science lecture we are described as three dimensional slices of four dimensional space-time worms.) Wendy sees pictures in poems. I see pictures in my head – pictures I […]
Mashing together two prompts today: Wendy’s post for #MoDigiWri and the Daily Create also for today. I visited the Dotsies site and grabbed the bookmarklet up to my tool bar, then headed over to Wendy’s blog and applied it, screen shot the result and pasted the image into Paint to crop it. The resulting image, here on the left, is her poem translated into dots. Wendy’s post is reminding me of Bertrand Russell’s distinction between surface grammar and depth grammar. Is […]
The Great Christmas Unwrappathon 2018 from Sandy Brown Jensen on Vimeo.
Christmas lunch – vege roast and all the trimmings for me, Niall, Niall’s mum and aunt Lesley. Served on mum and dad’s dinner service, reminding me of Christmasses past with family – busy days with everybody piled into mum and dad’s house a surfeit of food, noise and happiness. Today was quieter, but just as happy. Setting the table I felt so lucky for all we have: uur wine glasses were a wedding present from a friend, and the tablecloth […]
Two years ago I bought the material to make a pair of curtains for my bedroom, but the holidays passed and the curtains didn’t get made. The material sat around for a while with Lacey using it as a cushion, and then I packed it away in a bag and shoved it under the sofa. Not quite out of sight or out of mind. I could see the bag out of the corner of my eye, guilt-tripping me, but still […]
“Rain Words,” a service by John Gray, listened to by Mickey Brown, read to her by Sandy Brown Jensen from Sandy Brown Jensen on Vimeo.
Solstice Dinner at the Jensens 2018 from Sandy Brown Jensen on Vimeo.Mickey Brown, Peter and Sandy Jensen, Anne Korn, Terry Way, Okito, Sheri Rand, Roy Whang, Susan Louise, Susan Carkin, Joanne DuVall, Dan Henry, Robin Grace
Mickey Steps Out for a Concert and Dinner from Sandy Brown Jensen on Vimeo.
IPhone Meets Some Winter Friends from Sandy Brown Jensen on Vimeo.
