Jim Bodeen
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | poet, videographer |
| Location | Yakima, Washington, United States |
| Introduction | Even a charged word like Storypath/Cuentocamino, gift and invitation, bows before its ancestors, and my beginnings as a conscious being begin with Karen, whose person and story have made me, and kept me dizzy, for 54 years, 50 of those years in marriage. Karen walks with me, and helps me walk. There is some evidence that I do the same for her. During the lifetime of the word guiding us during these years, poetry and quilts have come from the gifts of adult children, grandchildren, and an expanding experience of family. Our children live challenging, generous lives. We are grateful for them daily. My mother, with her North Dakota roots, has completed her earthly life, leaving us seminal North Dakota imagery. Karen says, I take what the day gives me, and these words guide our family on the daily journey. Learning our steps as Grandma and Grandpa, then, inform the word, making this blog possible. |
| Interests | Poetry Stories Testimony/testimonio |
| Favorite Movies | The Last Station |
| Favorite Music | Leonard Cohen |
| Favorite Books | Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay, The Search for Duende, Garcia Lorca |
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