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Multi-dimensional Connections - 2024 02 09

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With fall rains come a glorious growth of mushrooms. From one day to the next they burst into the landscape. Each day, every walk, there is new growth, colour, texture and composition.  Storyfarm cultivation has been a very gradual process. I started this blog post on February 9, 2024. It is now November 2, 2024. In early February I was realizing that I needed to change my approach to my situation. I could no longer continue living in a perpetual state of imminent death. Mom had surpassed expectations for two years. She wasn't going anywhere and I needed to shift out of a hospice orientation to a long term orientation. At the same time, I needed to accept the realities and constraints of operating a long-term care bed in my home so that Mom could live out the rest of her natural life at home. This meant I needed to be extra careful about social engagements to reduce the risk of infectious disease, it also meant that my time was essentially proscribed by Mom's need for care twen...

Organizing multi-dimensional stories - 2023 12 11

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  My approach to storytelling is Incorporating narratology, multimodal theory, new media studies, interactive theory, Internet studies, social media studies, and statistics to produce and disseminate short, concise, blog posts that interweave visual imagery, research knowledge and quotidian anecdotes. This approach is designed to activate multiple points of engagement in the reader, to set up a reading experience that activates the reader's dialogic imagination, their unique interpretation and meaning making of the individual components in the blog post, but also the complex emergence of meaning through the juxtaposition of the different, unfolding parts of the story. Each day I am faced with an impossible complex of requirements, responses, and emerging outcomes. I am looking after my Mom. I am socially and professionally isolated. I am driven to make sense of my experience. I am required to show up every day, every hour, to attend to the needs of my frail elder Mom. I spend the m...

Early Results - 2023 11 15

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Examples - 2023 11 15

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Aesthetic - 2023 11 15

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Workflow - 2023 11 15

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Account Infrastructure - 2023 11 15

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