MINUTES of a MONDAY #96

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BRAIN FOOD > On The Record

“When he’d done talking and laughing – and he laughed a lot more – I reached over and tapped stop on the recording. I had heard bits and pieces of the story he’d told over the years, but mostly from my mother. She always sounded cynical and maybe even resentful; my father hadn’t turned out to be the man she hoped he was and so her stories about the early years of their marriage almost always sounded similarly disappointing. My father’s were anything but that.

Over the next few years, whenever I visited home, I would similarly ambush my father to ask him more questions about his life. Sometimes on video. We discussed his memories of Vietnam, his memories of his childhood, his complicated relationship with his father, and much more. In every instance, I found most of what he revealed to be details I didn’t know about him.

If I suspected he was bending the truth, to avoid a painful memory, or, as was the case most often when this happened, because he had told a safe version of a story for so long he'd forgotten how to talk about the truth of it, I pushed. He never resisted. He was being recorded. This was on record. It mattered because one day it might be the only evidence that remained about any of these events.”

Cole Haddon

writing about recording the voice of his father in How to Write Better Dialogue (While Becoming a Better Person)

SOUL FOOD:

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

Alan Watts

LOL:

Andrew Shculz on the connection between a large Asian population and driverless cars in San Francisco:

APPENDIX:

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”

Susan Sontag (via

Poetic Outlaws

)

A.O.B

And that’s a wrap for #96.

Thank you for stopping by this week, I appreciate it.

And as always, my fine feathered friend, mind how you go out there.

Niall