This is a somewhat personal post, or at least I am using personal experiences to make a larger case about the learning of emotional intelligence, or even maturity, as an …
Digital Nostalgia: There is no forgetting
Since our discussions of digital culture seem to encapsulate so many emotive elements, it stands to reason that they would include one for nostalgia. In the interests of research bias …
Memory, Loss, and Learning
It has been a few months (5) since my Uncle Larry has passed away and rather than reflect on the loss itself, I decided it would be worthwhile to recreate …
Living Memories and Archived Multimedia: The Edison Collection from the Library of Congress
Trolling through a section in the Library of Congress on Immigration (great learning tool), I rediscovered a collection that I had encountered before, namely the The Motion Pictures and Sound …
We lost a good friend: Adam Cline
This is part of the reason I was having a tough day. A few weeks after I had reconnected with him after the many years since our finishing school in …
Marlene Dietrich’s View of the World (as filtered through Mercedes Benz and Elton John)
I love this song. Marlene Dietrich pulls a lot of Teutonic emotion out of her limited voice, rich and frail at the same time. It is full of nostalgia and …
Blaze Gallagher and the American Memory
I only include this because it is a very cool image of a Gallagher. The father’s name is Blaze Gallagher. Seriously. This is Blaze and his son (and his guitar) …