http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:26:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am constantly forced to remind myself that I want to be a creative person. I've been told several times recently that I am good at management, at logistics, at coordination. Earlier this week I debated applying for an administrative job to follow my graduate education. And still, upon ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2009/02/motion-to-create Hebrid is a city that grows in all directions—into earth and sky, towards oceans and deserts. But the growth is slow. As the city changes it shape and height, the hills and fields around it do the same, responding to shifting needs, growing to replenish. The people ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2009/02/an-invisible-city I am writing a personal statement. Didn't I just do this? Not two years ago, I wrote a personal statement to finagle my way into graduate school. Well, I'm doing it again--this time for a short and intensive documentary writing program in the cold cold land of ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2009/01/ring-in-the-new For a month or so each year, frothy, soapy water spills from a small Dam feeding water to the Sacramento River. Just outside of the tiny town of Knight's Landing, this location is surrounded by agricultural lands, and boasts a popular fishing spot and boat launch. I ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2008/12/soapy-waters The winding hillside roads of Suisun Bay lead to the marshy edge of the California Delta and a small public fishing pier littered with remnants of fishing hooks, bait, and snagged lines. On any given night, a handful of fishermen populate this pier, lines cast into the slough that ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2008/11/the-beginnings-of-something-unmanageably-large I attended an all day writing workshop yesterday where we were asking to participate in a number of free writing activities. Prompted only be the phrase "I remember a time when...," I was surprised by the things I wrote about when I was asked to stop thinking and keep ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2008/10/free-write As a researcher, sometimes the hardest thing to do is ask a question. But that's your job. Ask questions, find answers, write about them. That's the deal. But the sheer force required to move a question from my mind into my stomach and then out through ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2008/10/it-doesnt-hurt-to-ask Staying put is simply not in my nature. In 25 (nearly 26) years of life, I have lived in 17 different residences. My packing abilities are sharp, quick, and well organized. I've adopted my mother's obsession of hardly sleeping until each item of furniture is in its ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2008/10/this-is-not-my-beautiful-house I frequent this pier because the fishermen upon it are usually rather talkative. Other fishers tuck in corners unseen from the road, precariously pass through closed gates and down steep hills to find distance and quiet. But the fishers upon this pier willingly sharing a small workspace with ... http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2008/06/invisible-fishermen "The emptiness is normal. The richness of our neighborhood is the exception." --Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten http://existentialmedia.net/thebreeze/2008/05/powers-of-10