The winter holiday has come and nearly gone. Kids home for Christmas, gifts coming out of every closet and nook, snow piled deep. Now that we’re all back at work and school, the tree and decorations will slowly be put away. This year I don’t want to let them go too quickly. Those little tree [...]
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winter cheer
Posted in family, memory on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
revisioning your life
Posted in images, memory on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An astounding web experience. Get yourself a good internet connection and go play: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/
11 charming minutes
Posted in images, memory on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An amazing short animated film. Don’t know much about it except that it’s completely captivating, has a French title, and appears to be produced in Japan. Update: my complete ignorance of world cinema is showing. This is a Japanese production from 2008 that won the best animated short Academy Award in 2009. And it absolutely deserved [...]
scenes from a warehouse 1
Posted in memory, nothing in particular on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s no telling why a scene from my life sticks with me, but occasionally I see or overhear something that sets its hooks in my memory: visual, emotional, and mental associations all bond together instantly. When did iPods come out—late 2001? So it must have been January 2003 or 2004. iPods were hot, and expensive, [...]
cherry tomatoes and plastic tiles
Posted in family, memory on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was looking for new games to put on my iPod touch, and I ran across a version of the classic sliding tiles puzzle. Long before electronic games, there were toys like this plastic puzzle. After doing a little internet research, I found that this kind of puzzle was introduced in 1880. [...]
childhood as a life sketch
Posted in family, memory on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wonder if, when I get older or when my mind starts to go, or when I start to feel the imminence of death—or any combination of the above—I’ll start to obsess about my early life. Will my childhood become more immediately important to me than what’s going on around me? My grandmother Virginia was [...]
the joys and consolations of the internet, part 1
Posted in family, memory, music, tagged childhood, internet, music on February 4, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Ain’t the internet great? It’s like this vast collective memory, the large majority of which is completely useless and foolish. Still, it has its charms. I’ve been a bit more reflective than usual in the last couple of years. In between moments of panic about my health and life expectancy, I tend to think back [...]
quiet mornings in winter
Posted in family, images, memory, tagged childhood on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My father took a lot of photos in the late 50s/early 60s, black and white studies of landscapes and our living spaces. He was an artist, and had a Nikon camera that he took everywhere. Somehow he was able to capture moods and light and memories with a deft visual touch. He taught at the [...]
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