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DOING SIXTY TO SEVENTY
For more than thirty-five years in public and international education, I’ve had the opportunity to travel the globe on U.S. government programs–from a Peace Corps Volunteer to English Language Fellow and Fulbright, to English Language Specialist and ESN Coach. I’ve kept my writing from those journeys–in my twenties in journals and letters; in my thirties in aerograms and on postcards; in my forties and fifties, in emails and blogs.
Now in my late sixties, I’m taking my time to dive into the archive–the print and digital journals, photo albums and digital photos, slides and VHS videos stored in boxes and binders and bins–to reflect on and explore my own identity through narratives shaped by memory, emotion and life experience. This process of engaging in self-reflection and digital creation–what might be called curating a museum of the self–can foster a deeper understanding of one’s life journey and invites others to make human connection.
I’m working with ArcGIS StoryMaps to geotag digital stories, texts, and poems–from Santa Fe to Samarkand, from Boulder to Ulaanbaatar–on the interactive maps. Thank you for taking the journey with me to Central Asia in Love in the Fergana Valley and for sharing my process of recovery in the Corona Poems.
I hope you are inspired to try digital storytelling as a medium in your own creative exploration.
Jode
DOING SIXTY TO SEVENTY
For more than thirty-five years in public and international education, I’ve had the opportunity to travel the globe on U.S. government programs–from a Peace Corps Volunteer to English Language Fellow and Fulbright, to English Language Specialist and ESN Coach. I’ve kept my writing from those journeys–in my twenties in journals and letters; in my thirties in aerograms and on postcards; in my forties and fifties, in emails and blogs.
Now in my late sixties, I’m taking my time to dive into the archive–the print and digital journals, photo albums and digital photos, slides and VHS videos stored in boxes and binders and bins–to reflect on and explore my own identity through narratives shaped by memory, emotion and life experience. This process of engaging in self-reflection and digital creation–what might be called curating a museum of the self–can foster a deeper understanding of one’s life journey and invites others to make human connection.
I’m working with ArcGIS StoryMaps to geotag digital stories, texts, and poems–from Santa Fe to Samarkand, from Boulder to Ulaanbaatar–on the interactive maps. Thank you for taking the journey with me to Central Asia in Love in the Fergana Valley and for sharing my process of recovery in the Corona Poems.
I hope you are inspired to try digital storytelling as a medium in your own creative exploration.
Jode
STORYMAPS
STORYMAPS
MENTIONS
MENTIONS
When watching Jode’s digital stories, I visit an exotic realm, meet ghosts and friends and see life through a lens of honest beauty.”
“Jode’s contemplative pace and creative voice are juxtaposed with narratives from the home, the road, the family, and the bone. I finish watching: I crave to create.”
“You touch hearts; you creep into lives and touch minds; you open channels.”
“I’m exploring the other half of the circle – something that is especially hard in this either/or culture that tries to make us into one thing for life and treats change as if it were a rejection of the past.”
Doing Sixty and Seventy, Gloria Steinem
EXPLORE YOUR LIFE JOURNEY
EXPLORE YOUR
LIFE JOURNEY
DIVE INTO THE ARCHIVE FOR CREATIVE WOMEN
Jode supports you in revisiting the storywork you left behind: those texts in hand written journals; composition notebooks stashed in a cardboard box; stories filed somewhere in a folder on your desktop. She listens deeply as you rediscover your direction, and she supports you in prioritizing your creative work, no matter how many times you’ve put it away.
DIGITAL STORYTELLING FOR ENTREPENEURS
Jode guides you through writing, editing, and recording your script, layering it with photos and video of yourself to promote your art, business, or service.
YOU HAVE A
STORY TO TELL.
REACH OUT TO START YOUR JOURNEY
YOU HAVE A STORY TO TELL.
REACH OUT TO START YOUR JOURNEY.
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