Comments on: On the George Washington Bridge Project: Tumblin Tumbleweeds http://thegayrecluse.com/2009/03/12/tumblin-tumbleweeds/ The Gay Recluse: Observation, philosophy and other notes on the beauty and dissonance of life in the city Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: c. http://thegayrecluse.com/2009/03/12/tumblin-tumbleweeds/#comment-3003 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:58:38 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.com/?p=3367#comment-3003 “Because I didn’t take a photograph of this, it may or may not have happened.”

This distills the entire, disorienting, “before/after” quality I keep increasingly experiencing in my personal life, between my memories of life before 2000 (which is the bulk of it), and since. Oddly, the section since 2000, documented in a bazillion photos and long emails to people, seems less real than the nearly undocumented prior decades.

Is a personal, remembered experience just simply that much more vivid than a virtual, electronic version of it? Or is youth just more substantial than middle age?

In fact, wasn’t the tumbleweed a shared moment of living in the present, whereas all our electronic media is about freezing and cataloguing the past?

]]> By: John Anthony http://thegayrecluse.com/2009/03/12/tumblin-tumbleweeds/#comment-2988 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:52:50 +0000 http://thegayrecluse.com/?p=3367#comment-2988 a friend of mine is on the verge of divorce and then his hardrive crashed and he lost like 3 years worth of family photos, which he didn’t have backed up, and so now he’s devestated he’s losing his real and his virtual memories at the same time.

my aa/hiv sponsor once told me, “just when you think your life is falling apart, that is when it is really all coming together.”

it turns out he was right then, and now.

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