another home movie

May 9th, 2007

I’m glad I read the comments to the last post through to the end–that was a bracing exchange on the French election, modern European history, and amnesia.

I also loved the range of responses to the first archive episode–the deeply nostalgic ones, and the ones from people who weren’t even born yet.

This evening I made a movie about the progress of the flora in my woods since my last report on April 27. My woods…I know, I know, that’s obnoxious. The woods. Is that better? I don’t know why I keep subjecting you to these slapdash video projects. It helps me decompress or something. From my fast-paced, stressful life in the woods.

Hey, Fun Home won a prize on Monday. The Publishing Triangle-Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. It’s a pretty cool thing. You can read about the other winners here. Right now I’m reading one of the other nonfiction finalists, Different Daughters, A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement. It’s fascinating. How did those women have the nerve to do what they did? In the fifties? I don’t know. But I’m glad they did.