Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, "Exuberance, The Passion for Life "
"Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, speaks
about her book "Exuberance, The Passion for Life" at a conference on teacher
wellness organized by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY).
Introduced by CTY's Dr. Charles Rowins. Topics include: mental health, genius,
creativity, moods and mood disorders, depression, bi-polar disorder, teaching
gifted and talented children, genetics, risk-taking and the joy of teaching. As Dr.
Jamison writes in "Exuberance": "To teach well, I heard early and often, is to make
a difference. To teach unusually well is to create magic."
Please watch this PSA by my new favorite director, Bobby Sheehan (Seed, 2000), of Scot Anthony Robinson's "Vision Warrior." I so hope that Mr. Sheehan gives a master lecture in San Francisco before I die.
"Seed is the story of 40-something Francis Seed (played by John Michael Bolger) who is on a journey to find peace within himself in his last days on earth. We are never told what he is dying of, but we get the sense that it is of his own unhappiness. Mr. Seed's parents are no longer alive; he has no family of his own and he is so focused on his impending death that he's forgotten how to live. Throughout the course of the film, the protagonist meets people whom he looks to for answers and advice. The scattered meetings are edited together like a collage and what unfolds is real life, unscripted stories as told by real people in light of Mr. Seed's fictional dilemma. A junkie who gets clean, a stroke survivor, a liberal rabbi, a band leader named "Dethy," an old black man named Simon and a transvestite who has survived the AIDS epidemic are just some of the characters who color Sheehan's film. The result is a reaffirmation of life for Mr. Seed, who realizes that it's not too late to start living" (imbd.com) I watched the whole movie before I went to work and for the first time, I was aware of watching a movie with the eyes of a filmmaker.
