David Boles: Human Meme Podcast
1) Passage Land: The High Plains, the Long Roads, the People Who Remain
You inherited a debt you never agreed to pay. I want you to consider that statement before you dismiss it. Not a financial debt, not a mortgage or a student loan with your signature on the paperwork. ...Show More
2) The EleMenTs Trilogy
When we encounter disability, most of us have been trained to see deficiency. Something missing. Something wrong. A departure from the norm that requires correction, accommodation, or at minimum, symp...Show More
3) Arm Angles in American Sign Language: A Study of Proximal Articulation in Signed Discourse
Here is something I did not expect to discover while writing a textbook about American Sign Language. The shoulder knows things the hand cannot say. That sentence sounds like metaphor. It is not. It i...Show More
4) The Kinship of Strangers: When Science Dissolves the Boundaries We Need
What does it mean to discover that you are kin to strangers? Not metaphorically kin, not spiritually connected, but genetically linked in ways that contradict everything you were taught about who your...Show More
5) The Inheritance and the Body's Archive
Your grandmother was frightened before you were born. Not in the ordinary way that people are frightened, the startle at a loud noise or the anxiety before a difficult conversation. I mean something m...Show More
6) The Dying Grove: Mind Beneath the Soil
There is a forest in the Pacific Northwest that has been thinking for four thousand years. I want you to sit with that sentence for a moment. Not to dismiss it as metaphor, not to immediately qualify ...Show More
7) The Wound Remains Faithful: A Human Meme Podcast
There is a particular cruelty in forgetting. We dress it up in softer language. We call it moving on, healing, closure. We treat forgetting as the natural conclusion to grief, as though memory were a ...Show More
8) Hand Against the Father
This is the particular tragedy of sons against fathers. The father does not see it coming. The father still thinks of the son as his child, as someone he made, as someone who carries his hopes. The fa...Show More
9) Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
Martha's Vineyard. You know it now as a summer retreat for the wealthy, a place of pristine beaches and celebrity sightings. But between the late seventeenth century and the middle of the twentieth, s...Show More
10) Pause Before the Lie
Listen to your own voice the next time you tell the truth. Notice how it flows, uninterrupted, from thought to speech. Now pay attention when you're about to lie. Feel it? That hesitation, that gather...Show More