Interiority

“Someday We’ll Linger in the Sun” by Gaelynn Lea (Submission for NPR Music’s 2016 Tiny Desk Contest)

What is expressed in these phrases:

“Now, side by side, we face the night.”

“And I love you.”

“It was the most scared I’ve ever been.”

“You held my hand until the end.”

“…it slips away when we pay no mind”

“Someday, we’ll linger in the sun.”

How do these phrases fill in for the lack of language for our interior experience?

What is the hope and dream yearned for in the words “Someday, we’ll linger in the sun?” Why do we imagine nature as an antidote for something yearned for in our modern reality? How do we envision lingering there?

How are we to understand interiority as teachers and artists? How is it engaged in a learning setting?

Interiority as reflection

Reconstructing the experience step by step or focusing on a dimension of the process. Seeing into the experience with insight.

Interiority as agency

Describing the experience of making choices. Choices in the design and emergence of learning activities and materials. Choices in the emergence of creative by-products of learning. Choices in curating an assembly of creative by-products, documentation, and notation.

Interiority as Presence

Describing the experience of becoming present. Recognizing a dimension of self in the emergent presence.