Greig Roselli Teacher, Writer, Philosophy Sprinkles Maker

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I recently went to the Met and I wandered the newly renovated European Paintings galleries and I fell in love with the French artist Poussin's painterly image of a wandering giant looking for the sun.Nicolas Poussin, French Les Andelys 1594-1665 Rom "Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun," 1658 (oil on canvas).The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. 24.45.1The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently renovated its European Paintings galleries. The skylights have been fixed and apparently more artwork has been hung on the walls. I like to wander the galleries without a goal in mind however, I lie just a bit, here. Because I did have a goal in my wanderings mainly to find the Met's Caravaggio's. But it's always the serendipitous finds that stick with me. And Poussin's "Blind Orion" caught my attention. I know nothing of Poussin so my interpretation of the painting is more of a first blush. But I am a lover of myth and poetry and this painting draws you into a mythological world. At first I thought the giant figure carrying a man on his shoulders was Saint Christopher the legendary boatsman who carried the Christ child on his shoulder crossing a river. But that is not the subject of this painting. It's a depiction of the blind giant Orion, who carries his guide Cedalion, as they look for the rising sun. The museum placard indicates that Diana, the moon goddess, who appears a diaphanous blue, stands watching in the clouds. It's a magical story; obviously one fit for myth but the scene resonates with me because I think of myself as somewhat of a wanderer. And Orion is also the name of one of my favorite constellations. So it is befitting. Here's to searching. For the healing sun.PDF for PrintingGreig RoselliI am an educator and a writer. I was born in Louisiana and I now live in the Big Apple. My heart beats to the rhythm of "Ain't No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day". My style is of the hot sauce variety. I love philosophy sprinkles and a hot cup of café au lait.Feeling the need to be inspired, I found this post-it note on a bulletin board at the school where I am a high school English teacher. I teach ina K-12 schoolin the New York City borough of Queens.Julian in Fourth Grade doles out a massive dose of encouragement.Needing Positivity this Week (For Sure!)I am usually the teacher who brings positivity to the classroom. But lately I have been feeling down-and-out. Maybe it's the global pandemic that has swept the world, or maybe it's the attack on our democratic institutions on Wednesday that threw the nation's Capitol building in lockdown when a large group of Trump-inspired far-right rioters breached security protocol and entered the federal building, breaking glass, vandalizing the Speaker of the House's office, and even infiltrating the Senate chambers where just an hour before, legislators had convened to accept certified electoral college votes from the states to follow through with the Constitutional process to de facto validate the election of the next President of the United States, Mr. Joseph R. Biden, Jr.Inspiring Note from a Fourth GraderAnd I saw this note from a Fourth grader. Kids at this age have an optimism and clarity for both big-spectacled dreams as well as practical sense. Who doesn't want the world changed for the better. But I love how he admits it is a challenge. And kudos for his marvelous grammatical construction "Changing the world isn't easy, but anyone can."PDF Copy for Printing Greig RoselliI am an educator and a writer. I was born in Louisiana and I now live in the Big Apple. My heart beats to the rhythm of "Ain't No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day". My style is of the hot sauce variety. I love philosophy sprinkles and a hot cup of café au lait.In this post, I retell a story of when I was in kindergarten and told my teacher I was named Anthony.On the first day of school in kindergarten.My teacher, Mrs. Rousell, does the roll call. Susie, Anthony. And, of course, my first name is Anthony, but I've always gone by Greig. So in a split second, I say, Yeah, my name is Anthony. Don't call me Greig. So the rest of that week, the teacher says, One plus one, Anthony, what's one plus one? I'm like looking around the room. Is she talking to me? I don't answer her.And then later on in the day, Where's your mat? Anthony, go get your mat for nap time. I'm like, What Is she talking to me? I mean, this goes on for the entire week, and finally, on Friday, my mother comes barging into my room. Anthony! I got in so much trouble, honey. Yes! My mama was like, Why do you call that teacher and tell her that your name is Anthony? She says you have a hearing problem. Don t you know that your Greig ? I mean, come on.PDF Copy for PrintingGreig RoselliI am an educator and a writer. I was born in Louisiana and I now live in the Big Apple. My heart beats to the rhythm of "Ain't No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day". My style is of the hot sauce variety. I love philosophy sprinkles and a hot cup of café au lait.Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, a fantastic Hollywood movie from the 1990s, just might be one of the best movies ever made about faking it until you make it.Christina Applegate in Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead 1991Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead is a movie about transformations.Her boss tells her to say, "I'm right on top of that, Rose!" whenever she is doing a task for her. She says cheerily, "Don't feel overwhelmed, just do one thing at a time." The movie captures the era of big shoulders and women in the workplace trying to make their mark. Sue Ellen works her way up the corporate ladder, getting that Q.E.D. Report done by some cool delegation to the ire of one of her co-workers, played byJayne Brook, who is catching on to Sue Ellen's ruse. But Rose thinks Sue Ellen is just the best. "You're a paragon!" she beams! But Sue Ellen, the newest hire at General Apparel West, is really just a kid. The big conceit of the movie is that Christina Applegate is not really a fashion mogul."I'm Right On Top Of That, Rose!"If you don't know the plot, it's ostensibly a story about every teenager's dream to have the house entirely to yourself, no rules, no boundaries. See. Mom (played by Concetta Tomei) has gone to Australia and left the kids, played by Christina Applegate, Keith Coogan, Robert Hy Gorman, Danielle Harris, and Christopher Pettiet, with an evil-eyed, petty authoritarian (played by Eda Reiss Merin) named Mrs. Sturak. Even the name connotes fear. But the thing is the movie is not about navigating the conflicts brought on by a mean babysitter. Mrs. Sturak dies twenty minutes into the movie. And Christina Applegate's character suddenly finds herself having to take on the head of the household. In a wild stretch of the imagination, she manages to land a job for a fashion company by stitching together a fake résumé which hilariously causes her to take on the daily grind, getting up before dawn, to get dressed, prepare breakfast, and beat the downtown Los Angeles traffic to get to work on time. The oldest brother is a deadbeat (Coogan's character) and the three other kids are treacly sweet, just the way most pre-teen kids are in Hollywood movies from the late 1980s and 1990s. But Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead is no John Hughes flick. Directed by Stephen Herek, the same guy who brought us Critters and Bill Ted's Excellent Adventure, the movie takes on a plucky pull-yourself-up-from-the-bootstrap narrative.Surprisingly Inspiring Movie That Could Otherwise Be Dreck!The joy of the movie is watching the kids take on adult responsibilities. And the reality is that in the 1990s, many kids were latchkey kids without parental supervision after school. Like the kids in the movie, learning to take care of yourself, prepping for a meal, setting the alarm on your clock, getting the laundry done, and all of that mundane task that can make life a drudgery were self-taught this was before "Helicopter Parents." But like I said the movie is about transformations. The sulky teen girl finds purpose (who isn't rooting for Sue Ellen!). The deadbeat older brother finds purpose in catering! The young kids figure out how to clean the house, take on responsibility, and just be cute in a Hollywood movie. It's been about thirty years since this movie came out and a lot has changed about everything. The film has aged well, though. The movie is pumped with an optimistic premise that left to their own devices, kids will take on identities and responsibility and win us over with their aplomb and finesse. Don't underestimate 'em.What other movies have you seen that show dramatic transformations in teen characters? Let us know in the comments.PDF Copy for PrintingGreig RoselliI am an educator and a writer. I was born in Louisiana and I now live in the Big Apple. My heart beats to the rhythm of "Ain't No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day". My style is of the hot sauce variety. I love philosophy sprinkles and a hot cup of café au lait.Inspired by the Romantics, I find inspiration in the everyday material world.A bike covered in pigeon droppings. OK. That s ewwwww. But. Look.A bowl of grits, green onions, and cheesy eggs.Me looking at art books.A snapshot from my favorite mobile game@taptapfish.Homemade Tibetan-style dumplings (known as Momo ) and a pretty portrait shot of the famous penguin sculpture in Jackson Heights, Queens. It s my way of finding beauty, elegance, and looking up from the gutter to see the stars (to paraphrase Oscar Wilde).PDF Copy for PrintingGreig RoselliI am an educator and a writer. I was born in Louisiana and I now live in the Big Apple. My heart beats to the rhythm of "Ain't No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day". My style is of the hot sauce variety. I love philosophy sprinkles and a hot cup of café au lait."In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy, too;For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do." Isaac Watts, 1674 - 1748Photo bynacer eddineonUnsplashI do this thing where I look at my old journals.It's the greatest accomplishment of my youth. That I wrote a lot of entries. It's an activity that I tell my students to do often (as I am a high school English teacher), and I wonder if it must be a thing of adolescence to inscribe one's thoughts down on paper. As an adult, I am not as prone to journal writing. I've lost interest in my own subjectivity!That's sort of a joke, but I have done one activity consistently collecting quotes. I found the above quote about idleness in one of those old journals from my youth.It's easy to scoff at Isaac Watt's suggestion that one ought to stay busy. It's a sentiment ingrained in the Puritan notion of "work ethic" that has so often infused every aspect of American culture and history. In the current dispensation, productivity is rewarded, and idleness is looked down upon as indicative of a rotten soul.I guess that is why the devil is co-opted in this dialectic between work and inactivity since the devil is the symbol of perversion. Therefore, the lack of work, the absence of productivity is an abomination in this worldview.There is a lot to be said for idleness, though. Even when the devil is idle, I suspect, they are having a good time!PDF Copy for PrintingGreig RoselliI am an educator and a writer. I was born in Louisiana and I now live in the Big Apple. My heart beats to the rhythm of "Ain't No Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day". My style is of the hot sauce variety. I love philosophy sprinkles and a hot cup of café au lait.Search inside my website for good writing, teaching, learning, working, being, and doing, darnit!I'm not pensive. Usually. Read what I write. Comment. Rant. Share. But, whatever you do, remember to support teachers, writers and artists.Stolen Shot: Midnight Cowboy One of the best on-location street scenes in movie history was actually an accident (although there are some naysayers who say the sho...Greig Roselli 1998-2020. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.

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