If Nothing Ever Changed, There’d Be No Butterflies

I was privileged to teach digital storytellng at the Oregon Writing Project Summer Institute (professional writing development for K-12 teachers).

The script for this digital story came from Nan Phifer, author of Memoirs of the Soul: A Writing Guide, who led us in a freewrite with the sentence stem “I used to think…but now I know.”

Author: Sandy Brown Jensen

I am a retired writing instructor and faculty tech specialist from Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. I still teach and am also a photographer, poet, blogger and digital storyteller (short videos).

15 thoughts on “If Nothing Ever Changed, There’d Be No Butterflies

  1. Beth Camp says:

    Sandy, I love these videos that juxtapose poetry and images — and that carry unexpected meanings. Lovely.

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    1. Sandra Jensen says:

      Thank you, Beth! This really was more of a journal entry–a freewrite in class. I like to do scripted work, but I also am especially drawn to “bricolage,” piecing something together out of immediately available materials. Thanks for stopping by!

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  2. Merrill Watrous says:

    I watched this with my grandson who is still 5 – the images entranced him even tho the words were harder for him to understand. Just yesterday we made his DS about turning 6… We are all ripening fruit!

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    1. Sandra Jensen says:

      Thank you, Merrill! I look forward to seeing that video!

      Reply
  3. Rose Meeker says:

    Profound and touching, so much said about your life path in a concentrated way, a narrative so brief as to be almost momentary. I loved this.

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  4. Donna says:

    Sandy, my medium has never been words, maybe because they always got mixed up in my head due to dyslexia. I have always loved your ability, along with a number of others we both know, to express precisely soul expression, heart expression, and intellectual expression for that very moment in time we share.
    Thank you Donna

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