About

A Registry of Faded Geometries is a weblog wherein I, Kevin, share and write about things I think are interesting.

I stared blogging prolifically in 2002 and continued to write & share online until 2007 when Twitter was introduced to the world. From 2009 to 2012 I tried to return to blogging but it never stuck.

Now, more than ten years later I've returned to a habit & routine that once served me well, before social platforms scaled and ruined the Internet. As I find the time and uncover new, old-writings, I may add them here. Lots of what you'll find here may be messy, unfinished, and representative of former versions of myself— spelling errors and clichés included.

The title of this blog is a reference to a quotation from Craig Davidson's book The Saturday Night Ghost Club:

“Reality never changes. Only our recollections of it do. Whenever a moment passes, we pass along with it into the realm of memory. And in that realm, geometries change. Contours shift, shades lighten, objectives dissolve. Memory becomes what we need it to be.“

I often think of memories and wonder if what I recall happening is a true representation of the past. Are my recollections factually accurate or are they nothing more than a collection of stories that I've assembled from countless re-telling of a given instant by others and my made-up understandings & perceptions of the very same moment.

A Registry of Faded Geometries collects the ideas that Davidson describes in his book— the memories as we recall them, as we need them to be.