JD's Blog (3)

Been realizing lately that the last thought I've had before I've gone to bed has been about death. Not so much an obsession with wanting to know when or how mine will come, but the fact that it will come. Sometimes that fixed worry leaves me and attaches itself to the death of others. I'm not depressed about it necessarily, I'm just sort of in awe of its inevitability. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I cant go in any direction in my community without having to maneuver aro… Continue

For those of you unfamiliar with the genre/technique, "Oral History" is a method of gathering stories through an interview. During the interview, the interviewer develops a close relationship with the interviewee by taking a life-history approach, asking him or her open-ended questions beginning with the person's upbringing, their parents, the neighborhood where they grew up, and so forth, in an attempt to elicit the most important events in that person's life. Oral History is not a way to turn… Continue

Last time I biked by this tree, the paint was still fresh. Continue