swishism

Apparently, strictly speaking, the anti-spyware program that fixed everything on my laptop recently, didn’t know whats it was looking for; it starts from a place of ‘being stuck’, and looks for attributes and characteristics that look fishy. Perhaps this is how the dancer put together her routine in the first part of this series?

When I was at Primary (Elementary) school, I remember thinking “Why are the teachers always giving us scissors and Golden Gum glue, and not much guidance (well, my phrasing was different back then, but you get the idea). Turns out they didn’t know why either*, they just knew that giving kids a set of guarded blades, and Stephen’s golden gum, got results - chiefly the passage of time, but also some innovation.

I guess I do most of my writing this way, on the look out for attributes and
characteristics that resonate with me because of their pith, rhythm, or timeliness…

it just gets me excited with / ideas and commensurate split decisions–dividing swish
and at the same time multiplying his / narrative by 3, first to third person, with new biases

Seriously though, whilst kids don’t always have great discernment. They have the chutzpah to truly create and edit whatever they feel like. They don’t call it interpretation, or heuristics, or ‘throwing it at the wall’, but they do know when it’s stuck. I guess that’s the kind of ’stuck’ adults could use, too.

*I can safely say this, now that I teach

swishism entry creativity, habit, just do it, kids