May 27th, Monday

1.5 hours connecting with our peer group, reaching out, hugs, tears, and words of wisdom.

3 hours reading The Female Pelvis Anatomy & Exercise by Blandine Calais-Germain, performing the exercises, breathing, moving slowly still working up my body to preform in the next coming days.

I am working through my grief.

May 28th, Tuesday

4 hours of presentations.

3 hours working on my Holdrege paper, organizing, working in edits.

May 29th, Wednesday

3 hours reading The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.

2 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris

2 hours reading Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf

I went for a swim today and saw jellyfish, a beautiful reminder of life.

May 30th, Thursday

4 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris, and talking to a friend about evolution. I have been able to connect my study of focus to that of my peers as well, it is a reassuring and pleasant change of pace.

2 hours creating poetry, trying to channel my pain and the pain I have been reading about into a work while the feelings are fresh.

2 hours in the Calculated Poetics class session listening to presentations while I made origami, it truly calmed me.

May 31st, Friday

3 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris, I am finding this book to be one of my favorites because of it’s evolutionary lens.

2 hours working on the Holdredge paper, organizing ideas and formatting.

June 1st, Saturday

3 hours reading reading The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.

2 hours working with a peer group on the formatting of my final paper, reviewing, sharing information.

3 hours writing poetry, breathing, moving more often.

1 hour reading Write About an Empty Birdcage by Elaina M. Ellis, looking for inspiration.

June 2nd, Sunday

2 hours reading Neuro by Nikolas Rose, conjuring a reverie.

5 hours reading, grabbing words from Cloves and Honey and Bodies of Light by Athena Kildegaard.

Totals

This week: 47.5 hours

Cumulative total: 170 hours

May 13th, Monday

4 hours reading Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf, reflecting upon my own body, note taking, and drawing.

30 minutes connecting with our peer group, touching base and deciding to do solo work for the day.

2 hours working on the Holdredge paper, organizing ideas and formatting.

2 hours reading Neuro by Nikolas Rose, conjuring a reverie.

May 14th, Tuesday

2.5 hours in class lecture on Perloff reading, sharing poetry and inspiring work found in our projects.

3 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris

Breathing, stretching, tending to my body’s needs.

May 15th, Wednesday

3 hours reading Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf. Turning inward, I had a difficult time reading this specific section titled the “traumatized vagina” I took frequent breaks and a lot of breathing, realizing this is very real to people and needs to be recognized.

2 hours reading The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.

2 hours creating poetry, moving my body, talking with women and reflecting upon my findings.

May 16th, Thursday

2 hours reading Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf

2 hours with the Calculated Poetics, creating a sento with our small groups, Brain vs. Brane.

2 hours reading reading The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.

May 17th, Friday

4 hours reading The Female Pelvis Anatomy & Exercise by Blandine Calais-Germain

1.5 hours drawing vaginas and multiple views of the female body

May 18th, Saturday

2 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris

The rest of the day I drove up to Seattle for Dream Dance, a night filled with acro yoga, dance, tea serving, enlightening conversation, connection making, community love time! Then I made 2 rhubarb pies!

May 19th, Sunday

coming back to Olympia then,

3 hours reading The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.

4 hours reading Body of Wisdom: Women’s Spiritual Power and How it Serves by Hilary Hart

2 hours reading The Female Pelvis Anatomy & Exercise by Blandine Calais-Germain, performing the exercises, breathing, getting to know my body.

Totals

This week: 44.5 hours

Cumulative total: 88.5 hours

May 5th, Sunday

3 hours reading and note taking on The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Have Been Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.

1 hour reading Neuro and configuring notes for a Bachelardian reverie

May 6th, Monday

2 hours reading and note taking on The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Have Been Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf.

2 hours of peer development, sharing to each other about how our field studies are going. This was a wonderful session of connection and communication.

4 hours reading and note taking on Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf.

2 hours reading and note taking on Neuro and configuring notes for a Bachelardian reverie.

May 7th, Tuesday

2 hours reading and note taking on Neuro and configuring notes for a Bachelardian reverie.

2 hours of the 0-core component lecture on Tuesdays, guest lecturer, helpful recommendations of books towards my field study.

4 hours reading and note taking on Vagina: A New Biography and The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Have Been Used Against Women, both written by Naomi Wolf.

Body Scanning and Breathing exercises throughout the day.

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Health concerns have popped up today, and of all places the pain is in my pelvis. I have been focusing so much time learning about the correlation between the brain and the pelvis/vagina, now I am aware and mindful of my own tension.

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May 8th, Wednesday

1 hour with the Calculated Poetics class, shared my “Ode to Romanesco” poem (in progress).

5 hours reading and taking notes on Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf.

1 hour writing poetry and deciphering notes.

Body Scanning and Breathing exercises throughout the day.

May 9th, Thursday

6 hours reading Vagina: A new Biography by Naomi Wolf

Breathing, body-scanning, laying supine, chanting mantras, sleeping, breathing.

May 10th, Friday

2 hours reading and taking notes on Vagina: A New Biography

2 hours reading and taking notes on The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris finding interesting parallels between how the female body had changed over time relating to evolution and agriculture.

Breathing, resting, soaking up sun, sleeping, hydrating, breathing.

May 11th, Saturday

3 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris, note taking.

May 12th, Sunday

2 hours reading The Naked Woman by Desmond Morris, note taking.

Body Scanning and Breathing exercises throughout the day.

Totals

This week: 44 hours

Cumulative total: 44 hours