Hey Y'all.
As hinted at before, this session explores the history of death, more specifically, it explores the changing ideas about death throughout time. This substantiated in various funeral rites, interpretations of life, and ultimately how we relate to mourning/grieving.
I wanted to use this as a space for some catharsis as well. It appears for the foreseeable future, I'll be putting out a session roughly once a month.
Here's a little eye in on the process: First a subject has to bear intrigue (I have no idea how this happens) then lengthy research ensues, then, I've been doing something different than I have previously in the course, I sit with it.
All too often we consume so much information, we don't let it settle and sort itself out. Discussing these subject with others before recording has also proven beneficial for synthesis.
After that, the recording and the video editing comes to bear. This, naturally, takes time. Finding CC photos, video clips, inserting transitions, timing, clipping, troubleshooting FinalCutPro. Additionally, I put work into attribution of all the assets I use, idk if other creators do this, I certainly don't see it too often, but it's a standard I hold myself to nonetheless.
I've also spent quite some time thinking about my personal approach toward doing this. I mean, intentionally not trying to make this too big, trying to do it full time, getting lost to the mindset of exponential growth. The course is selfish for me, by this I mean, I want to learn, I want to better understand what we're doing here, how we got here.
There is no "job" for this.
Profit is counterintuitive to this leading desire. Throughout the last year, I've been dramatically swallowed up by career moves, furthering education, and the mundane, working to make a living. If I had to rely on this to support me, I fear the leading desire would suffer for it. This way, I'm not liable to burnout, to pander, to clickbait, I just put out what I'm inspired by, not tainted by the ever-corrupting dollar. Better to be the real deal than to be a big deal.
The reality of this approach though, the cost of it, is infrequent uploads. I love doing this and I want to keep loving to do this.
I'm very grateful for the handful of you who've provided patronage. This helps foot the bill for the money and time I put into disseminating what I learn out to the world. More importantly, it's helped validate the value of the course. When you put all this work into something, someone being grateful for it, and helping you do it, that makes a huge difference. It'd be one thing to keep all of this to myself, but the sharing of it, the reciprocity... it's sincerely beautiful.
Hope y'all dig this next session!
