Three Friends. Three States. Sharing One Photo Every Day
I dunno how I found this blog. But it's written by 3 friends who live far apart. It's the way they keep abreast of what is happening in each other's lives. I find it amazing that they have the time to write something so perfect for each picture they post. I take a picture a day, but the captions I write are not amazing like these captions are.
I'm going to try to start doing that with my pictures.
My third favorite son Sam is a 1st year grad student. He is studying Creative Writing and teaching 2 sections of Freshman English. When reading 3x3x365 this morning (and crying over some of the posts) (they're not SAD, it's just that my heart was touched and I cry) I thought that this type of thing might be a wonderful idea for Sam's classes.
I don't know that his freshmen could do this, but they at least could try. Perhaps he could create a blog for each to post to on a weekly basis. Or at the least a file somewhere and at the end, everyone gets a copy.
My favorite teacher in high school was my senior English Teacher. Mrs. Jane Bills. she was quite the unique woman and an excellent teacher.
She had a piece of concrete on her desk entitled "concrete example", she had traveled widely and wore colorful Hawaiian dresses to school. anyway - we had a weekly assignment. It was a 100 word theme. I do not remember exactly the requirements, but she'd give us a topic on Monday and the 100 word theme was due the next Monday. It had to be exactly 100 words. That's the only thing I remember about it really. Probably 3 paragraphs only, opening, body and closing. Opening statement had to have elements..you know all that stuff better than I do now.
I really wish I still had my stack of themes. they're long gone and I wish I had them. I don't remember any of the topics. I remember writing, then counting, then rewriting, then counting, slashing, counting.
I guess my Pic-a-day pictures are my daily One Word Themes. :)
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