middle of term

It is that time in the semester where we begin to race to the end. In the next six weeks I will be completing the shooting of interviews for the ethics awards, I will be trying to wrangle my students to make passing grades, tutoring, getting them study help and trying very hard for them to realize the importance of these last few weeks of the semester. And me? As a student I will be designing a class lesson plan that teaches wisdom, writing a paper about someone who is wise and I will be creating the basis for my thesis at UNM.

I am using my Spring Break to write, research, think and in many cases wrestle my printer to try and get it to output what I need. I also am trying to work on my relationship building. In the winter months I tend not to venture out as much. After Christmas there is a lull of gathering...a huddling inside after the winter equinox. The spring equinox is upon us. Suddenly the whole world has the same amount of light and dark, at least for 24 hours. And it is time for me to build again my personal and professional relationships, the ones that get put back into the nooks and crannies during the winter.

As I research material for my class with wisdom, I am revisiting cognitive film theory. Film theory. The thought of it makes me groan...but I realize all this studying of the brain is exactly what cognitive film theory is. Why define emotion? Why understand emotion? Because I now believe our impulses are what drives us towards wisdom or away from it. Synapse is the brain, impulse is the heart.