Episode 63: Gender in Geek Culture Roundtable Discussion

Beth, Lindsey, Michael, and Suzanne sat down and talked about gender issues in geek culture. This is completely unedited gabbing.

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Episode 44: Recording your elders - Jessica Lamarre gets it done

Jessica Lamarre talks about how she recorded her 89 year old grandfather, Arthur Lamarre, in his home in Fall River, MA. She and her own dad triggered and focused his memory using photos from the time and asked meaningful questions to get a sense of the time when he was a young man.

Check out the process Jessica uses here.


Watch the youtube videos of Arthur Lamarre for the full effect!

Part 1: Conversations with Pa: The Wedding
Part 2: Conversations with Pa: The Early Years
Part 3: Conversations with Pa: Travels with Mary and Larry

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Episode 32: The Discipline and Practice of Recitation: Rev. Dr. Gordon Postill

Rev. Dr. Gordon Postill shares his thoughts on the discipline and practice of recitation.

Poems recited on this podcast:

Otherwise by Jane Kenyon I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise.  I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach.  It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate.  It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks.  It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.

Muktinath by David Whyte Dawn at Muktinath and I look through the window, white mountains and the steady slopes of snow, cold scent of pine and the raven-call of black birds circling upward – toward nothing. So the breath escapes the mouth spiraling in a cold room, so the words leave our lips, the first line of a long poem with no courage to finish. This is the place the path begins, the empty room beneath the breath where everything we’ve broken comes back to be repaired, where bitterness returns, opens, turns to a final sourness on the lime-washed walls and disappears. This is the place we start again, place sunburnt knuckles in moist eyes and bow the head feel the rough cold wall on the forehead and weep. This is the place we stop, look up, lean out the window and find the first signs of life. Beneath us a child is crying, while above, a tight arrow of driven ponies points the way to the high pass.

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Episode 31: The DFL Bookmarks converse on conversation

A wide-ranging discussion of emotional honesty, social niceties, grammar, philosophy, accents, the value of differences with references to TED talk by Brene Brown, film: My Dinner with Andre, books: The Fault in Our Stars, The Giver, To Kill a Mockingbird, TV show: Everyone Love Raymond.

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