Monday.   Mondays suck.

We’re beginning the new process of designing our own projects.   There’s a group of thoughtful young men who want to do a video that explores police brutality and the interactions they’ve experienced with the police.  It could be an amazing project.

Last year we wrote plays.  (One of the plays was a first place winner in a regional playwriting contest).  Before we started the plays, though, we had to research the topic it would be based on.   We constructed “dossiers” of their research that they then used to write their play.   It was hard work and most kids struggled with it.

But today, today, today, one of these fine young men said the following:

“hey, what if we made a dossier for this project.  We could collect all our research there.”

If all they took from last year was that it’s important to gather your research in one place and then synthesize it before you start a project…I can live with that.