My Workspace

The Daily Create assignment for today was to make a video giving the viewer a guided tour of your workspace. I have two workspaces–one at home and one at Lane, and this video is of my beautiful office at Lane Community College. I have the best office in the entire college, and in this case, “best” rhymes with “blessed”!

 

Included n this video is interspersed a reading of my favorite poem by William Stafford, “A Ritual to Read to Each Other.”

 

A Ritual To Read To Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,
a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break
sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood
storming out to play through the broken dyke.

And as elephants parade holding each elephant’s tail,
but if one wanders the circus won’t find the park,
I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote important region in all who talk:
though we could fool each other, we should consider–
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.

For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give–yes or no, or maybe–
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.

William Stafford

 

Author: Sandy Brown Jensen

I am a retired writing instructor and faculty tech specialist from Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. I still teach and am also a photographer, poet, blogger and digital storyteller (short videos).

2 thoughts on “My Workspace

    1. Sandy Brown Jensen says:

      I think the fun of these videos is to get ideas from different people about what we might like to change or add to our workspaces. I really hope a lot of DS 106ers post their videos!

      Reply

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