What will be your "history"

[wombatrois]

Reading the family history thread has been interesting.

I started thinking about all these "snapshots" of lives long past and that this is how our lives are distilled down to a couple of anecdotes.

What do you think you'll be remembered for? Shooting a rifle out of the window? Being the new cop to bust a brothel?

(I'm thinking about mine and will report back)

[Liiisa]

Yes, I think everyone is clicking on this and then going off to think about it a bit!

[wombatrois]

Where my current practices are front of mind it might be something like "she used to drive nearly 1000km there and back to go to WORK".

Most likely my sister and I will be lumped together and it will be something like "and that branch of the family ended there" (neither of us have children).

What I'd like to be remembered for is my beautiful garden or my flair for cooking :-)

[Liiisa]

It's weird to think of people remembering you when you're gone. I read somewhere that you live until the last person dies who remembered who you were. The next generation, Spawn, is where my family line ends, because they have no kids, just a Puggle, and I don't think the Puggle thinks much about me other than as someone to give a scritch and say "Hullo Maggie, are you still very cute? Yes you are. Yes yes you are. Oh yes what a cute cute doggo." But Maggie cannot convey this to a later generation.

Anyway, I suppose some younger people might remember me as the person who led field trips and could get Really Excited about dragonflies and red maple flowers, and was kind of a music nerd.

[ozziegiraffe]

My name will continue for a while yet in Solomon Islands, as several children were named after me.

[tzarine]

a friend who is also a writer & had someone close die recently
we talked bout mortality & what our legacies as writers will be
then my friend said we should submit, submit, submit

so then some future scholar might read one of my stories bout a hong kong that no longer exists
or someone might read my tiananmen coverage
or some of my travel essays or some of my interviews w famous artists

[tinaja]

When they clean out my house, it will be "didn't she ever notice all this dog hair?" Or "why did she keep all of these coffee bags?"

[riverhorse]

Whilst I don't have my own kids to remember me, I do hope that I have managed to touch some of my students' lives and that those who go on to use their German later in life might occasionally think back on that crazy teacher of theirs who used to gallop round the classroom on a broom to beat out the metre of a poem about someone riding horseback!

[sophie]

I have a few kids named after me.. both here and in Guatemala. And my family will probably pass on the story of how my husband and I met (he picked me up hitchhiking and I was engaged to someone else) and possibly some of my travel adventures. Hopefully some stories of how my family ended up in Canada.

[sprite]

THe member of the family who went off to work in all those exotic places. The irony is, as soon as you live in a place, it's no longer exotic.

I hope students will remember me as a teacher who found fun in lanuage learning, even though it's often difficult.

[tzarine]

i've been photographed @ demos & marches. a few times by news agencies.

[crazycat]

That is such an interesting question.

For me, I think the main thing would be emigrating to Australia when I was 22.

[tzarine]

i'll be also known as tzar's wife cause he's kinda known for literary stuff

im in the central michigan newspaper for the hk filmfest i made, for giving a bunch of talks on race. it's asian heritage month, get that tzarine woman. we're doing a panel on interracial couples. is that tzarine woman around?

im in a video on imdb

[rikita]

well, i hope a. remembers me as warm and loving and all that, though i guess also as sometimes a bit overwhelmed and nervous ... my niece might remember me taking her along on some of the group trips a. and i participated in ... other people ... no idea, i suppose different for everyone. the kids in my climbing courses hopefully remember what i taught them (and don'T let go of the rope when belaying) ...

[tzarine]

found my notepad from our tiananmen massacre days
really interesting reportage

"blondy spin writer hits on tzar"
"rumours of wuer kaixi appearing"
nick kristoff give us a lift - kinda full of himself
hutong noodles

ill probably send it to one of the unis that has an archive of materials.

[tzarine]

ozzie
more from my tiananmen days:
"
Clad in black warm up suit w red stripe on arm
Grey nikes
Crowd moves follos, gathers triage shaped mass towards hims
Wuer Wuer Wuer
Whispers through the crowd. Chants of Wuer
Picks up & runs. Snap shot from people in front
Rock star
“What do you want to say to Americans?”
as asking for autographs, no sign
Shoved paper slips
“The people are behind us”
Zai guo says to companion cross again
Will the students leave the square?
That questions has many fang mian - check trans later
Really wanted to see goddess
Not want to speak to press - moi
crisscrosses chang an twice"

[romily]

I guess only my niece and nephew will remember me, and I hope they remember me as the fun aunt that lived abroad, and loved them loads. And they will remember my cats!