Digital Legacy
I’ve embarked on the effort to create a digital legacy with Jake Smallwood from Fertile Minds, a protege of Dusty who got this blog started. If it can work it will cost about $400 to create a setup with wordpress that approximates the setup I had with Dreamweaver in the 20th century. Back to the future. Corresponding and speaking with them brings back memories of Dusty and grief for his loss. But also emphasizes the relevance of the project. Creating a digital legacy. Moving forward on the effort initiated with this.
A life as a project, coming further into focus as the ratio of past to future increases, or alternately, the ratio of future to past decreases.
The project enhanced by current reading a biography of Leonard Bernstein. Fascinating information in immense detail, but all of it external from interviews with his acquaintances and public records–nothing about his own perspective and inner life, since sadly the authoritative author was denied access to the vast archive in his estate by the executors.
The blog form–a dynamic record, allowing for the additions of data created by an ongoing life and of changing of perspective provided by reconsideration of old snapshots, combining immediacy and distance.