A Brief Chat in the Livestream with Jane Hutcheon

As we all navigate new experiences and tools, these live sessions have become a fun way to connect personally and spontaneously. Though the live sessions are only available to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. On my home page, I’ve endeavored to keep the focus on the current week’s recording, but you can access the archive at Projectkin.org/live. 

You’ll have to download the Substack app to watch these sessions live. Don’t worry. It’s free, as is the Projectkin subscription membership.

This week, we caught up with

Jane Hutcheon

of

The Juvenile Geriatric

and had a few minutes to talk about her fabulous series “Forget-me-not: How We Memorialise.” You can watch past episodes of the series at Projectkin.org/forget-me-not and register for coming episodes at the link below:

In today’s conversation, Jane shared a little of the back story to the series and shared snippets of learnings from each of our speakers, including:

1. Professor Gordon Coonfield of Villanova University in Philadelphia, PA. Watch episode one here.

2. Peter Billingham, author, celebrant, eulogy writer and guide. Watch episode two here.

3. James Ware, experienced as a business consultant, professor, and speaker in his role celebrating his wife and partner, Cindy Booth Ware. Watch episode three here.

4. Rhonda Lauritzen, biographer, memoir coach, teacher, and most recently author of “A Child in Berlin.” Watch episode four here.

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Jane gave us a sneak peek into episodes five and six with insight into the books written by her speakers:

• James R. (Bob) Hagerty, reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune, and author of "Yours Truly," a guide to writing life stories.

• Ailsa Piper, actor, director, audiobook narrator, and writer whose latest book is "For Life," a moving insight into loss, hope, and starting again.

A post I remember mentioning during today’s chat (next time, I’ll keep a list handy):

• The Birthday Letter Project by

  Victoria Olsen
  — this one’s been sitting with me since I read it several hours ago.

I briefly mentioned a database of “crazy” project ideas. I often think about this in the context of “get lateral” as Jane suggested, to break barriers between silos for memorials, eulogies, celebrations of life and obituaries.

In that conversation, I mentioned an old post of mine with a database of project ideas, here’s that link:

• Step-by-step creativity » Project Recipes. It’s a bit dusty, but perhaps worth reviewing to inspire ideas.

Join us next week, same live stream time, same live stream channel, as we talk about a special new two-part series we have coming about One-Place Studies. Join us here as a recording, or live on the Substack app!