Project Memory

I'm up to 4 entries now on my new blog on Blogger.com.

The title for my blog is "Father Who Wakes Up Tired and Other Stories". I want it to be a collection of vignettes about my childhood and early teens, during the time spent in Hong Kong and and my early years of living in the US, between 4 years and maybe 15-16 years of age. There might be a few from my later/more recent years: 18, 20, 22, 23. Those were also significant years for me.

What is significant about these years is that they were my formative years. They were the years that gave me the meaning about how I relate to those around me and the opportunity to change that meaning going from one side of the world to the other. These vignettes are just snippets of memories, small things that I could recall as being part of my past. I want these to be sketches of someone who has been here and there and exist in between -- that's who I am.

So now that I have 4 of them done, I am hoping that there will be more soon. I am aiming for about 30-45 of them. I guess I'm around 10% at the moment.

It's just that writing about my past is hard sometimes because I have such bad memory. It's hard for me to recall things because I process with associative thought, which means I have to see a picture or smell a scent or some other factor to trigger my memory. And I really don't have much stuff to go off of.

So we'll see what happens. I'll have to think hard, I guess.