I started a FaceBook account to stay in touch with my friends from Goddard College located in Plainfield, Vermont. Very special people most living around the country, Timothy (never Tim) lives in Seattle, he is a GIFTED pianist and composer who works with kids at risk and is doing his master in sociology—Chairman Meow is his red tabby cat. When we met during endless orientations our first residency (nine days) he wore a forest green, quilted helmet liner that looked like a hunter’s hat. My first night—I arrived four hours late due to flight delays—a seminal point in my writing practice that is too long to recount here, but the next morning I met Ian, Tom, and can’t remember his name although his face is clear as if he sat in front of me now, he left or changed majors that had a different residency.
Goddard offers undergrad and graduate degrees in a low-residency, independent study—progressive study. I have begun to write about my Goddard experience and it would take pages to note each friend—each truly unique—most are FF friends. I don’t check my FF often and hardly write on my wall, but whenever I do there are all the people who mean so much to me—to see their pictures and read their posts, which I do respond to, keeps me in touch and just feels good. I cried my heart when I left after graduation.
Although, I have a tweeter account on which I follow ballet dancers as research for part of the metafiction novel I am writing. I love ballet and ballet dancers who are a combination of grace, strength, dedication and endurance, I never tweet during the 2008 Presidential election when it seemed more productive than screaming at the TV. I friended the White House on FaceBook.
I laughed (lol) at the end of Social Network Wars: Super New! (all the “Current” You Tube videos express my attitude toward social networking) when Hella closes his computer and is surprised to find life, reminded of the life that is on hold while I strive for digital literacy (lol).
I love email and use to text like mad until I was given a Blackberry Storm (I hold onto waiting for Verizon to get iPhone). The download fix is a vast improvement but I’m not sure about touch screens, it was easy to type on a pad.
My first residency I took a few photos of the campus on my cell phone. The next two residencies I brought my camera. Photos tells part of the story, a video adds movement, but it is the community that completes the picture.
My first residency I took a few photos of the campus on my cell phone. The next two residencies I brought my camera. Photos tells part of the story, a video adds movement, but it is the community that completes the picture.
Hi Deborah -- you have made this video private, so no one can see it. Want to change the setting?
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