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A Message for Those Who Feel Helpless in Our Current Climate
Put Your Life Vest On First I wanted to share something that intersects with both Suicide Prevention Month and our current landscape as a country after flying back home on 9/11 in the wake of a very publicized assassination. While abroad, I was lucky enough to connect with people from all over the world. Something Read more
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Dr. Chang Appreciation Post
A Man Who Helped MaKe Paper Birds Possible Time for a Dr. Chang appreciation post! It was just over half a decade now that I first met Dr. Chang over Zoom (unintentionally this aligns well with detailing fall of 2020, five years on). Courses were completely online, but despite this, his personality transcended the small Read more
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It’s Been Awhile: Vlog 26
Yapping Into The Void Back with a vlog…it’s been awhile! Wanted to share some candid thoughts after watching the cut of Paper Birds for my editor, and touch on how I feel approaching the 5th anniversary of my first flashback on August 29th, 2020. If anyone would like to see the current cut of the Read more
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A Metaphor for Phase Three of Trauma Healing
Introducing the ‘Life Binder’ Chat, I have more reflections, but this will be two posts so sorry in advance: So as I established, I realize now I’m solidly in phase three of Judith Herman’s “Trauma & Recovery” model. The clearing. The integration. The reconnection. Well, I’ve been trying to step into that in a few Read more
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Behind the Scenes: Editing!
Some Updates Behind the scenes video originally posted to YouTube on May 31st. It’s garnered a grand total of seven views (I know, I know…hold your applause). But I actually thought this was quite interesting. The ideas I discussed in here did end up making it into the film so that was neat to realize Read more
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That Fall, Five Years On: The Summer Before Everything Changed
Summer 2020: Creative, Colorful, Curious So I won’t be able to line this up perfectly as I’ll be abroad the first two weeks of September, but seeing as we’re nearing the five year anniversary of when this whole story began, I thought maybe I’d document that fall in real time, half a decade on. This Read more
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