*was happy and surprised to see that students in her morning History class and afternoon Botany and Horticulture class hung up an emoji banner*:
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Yes, I saw that. I wonder what T'challa thought about it. He's not very nice when he's disappointed. I'm glad I'm not in Wakanda now. Ha, ha. Thanks for your comment, Jade. ;)
Very true. Thank you for your comment. I wish I'd seen it long ago. But, continually teaching gifted students at the Institute, and everything that goes with that, and my activities with the X-Men, keep me busy. ;)
returned home to find an arrangement of purple apanthus, African violets, and African Irises, with a note that said,"You may not be my wife, but you are a great Queen, Mother, and Lady always.
From T'challa and Your Sons and Daughters."
When my fellow X-Men and I are not trying to save the world from catastrophe, I am teacher of History, Botany, and Horticulture. I thought this quote seemed an appropriate addition on the subject of creativity.
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and...
Was just thinking, when someone says think outside the box....why does it have to be a box? Why can't it be anything you want? Like a closet? Or a door? Hehe
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
It's because it hinges on the idea that everyone wants to be ordinary (aka "normal") and that being anything other should be punishable socially. It stems from imperial modes of thinking that harm people not white-cis-straight-abled-perisex-etc because the idea of normal is centred on "some guy"-isms
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?