transgenerational memory

Posted on by wearytraveler

or, "sometimes your brain does weird shit when your grandparents were refugees" There's this video floating that's been floating around the internet for a few years called "The Most Shocking Second a Day Video". The title is terrible and click-bait-y, but the video is incredibly well-made. Its purpose is to show the trauma war has … Continue reading transgenerational memory

“Here” and “Somewhere Else”

Posted on by wearytraveler

I've been thinking a lot about war lately. Currently it's because I'm in Croatia, a place that was devastated by civil war during my lifetime (more about that later), but generally it's because of the horrible things my government has been attempting to, and sometimes succeeding in doing. I've always been kind of a pacifist. … Continue reading “Here” and “Somewhere Else”