dailyprompt – Page 2 – John B Ledger

What major historical events do you remember? 9/11. I mean, who doesn’t? But, being as I was soon to be 18, a symbolic marker point from transition from childhood to adulthood, 9/11 became that marker point. Everything before seemed secure. If not rose-tinted, then at least buffeted by a secure horizon of endless ok-ness inContinue reading

Describe your most memorable vacation. 1993 was a year that was crucial in forming my sense of futures and pasts. 9 years old, my dad had become a teacher, an historic unprecedented feat in family history. We now had a car and my parents decided that they no longer wanted to go to my grandparents’Continue reading

I can’t recall early childhood crushes, but I distinctly remember one from the spring of 1996 when I was 12 years old. It was the kind of Spring that lived up to its name. I was in the first year of secondary school, and after a first term of hurtful bullying I undertook a lotContinue reading

List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? Three books that have had an impact on me. 1. FEED – M.T Anderson. For me, this partly satirical novel from our near-past (2002) painted one of the most prophetic visions of what would come to be. FEED’s target audience was a teenage/young adultContinue reading

Do you remember life before the internet? Yes, but I largely recall it in anticipation for the thing in question. The internet, prior to its full realisation, prior even to the MySpace generation, was seen as ‘stand in’ for the future writ-large. It stood in for all things better, and thus was a conduit forContinue reading

What does freedom mean to you? The freedom to be needs to be matched by the freedom from having to be. You can’t be forced to be yourself, otherwise freedom itself becomes the tyranny.

Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life. Garry Sykes. Who passed away earlier this year. He taught me on my Bachelors degree in art at Barnsley College. Although it was a Bachelors degree, this wasn’t a university education. Barnsley is a post-industrial town, and certainly not a university town.Continue reading