Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry: Yesenia’s Story A podcast-style digital story cut from Tapestry mentor Yesenia’s “exit interview” with co-directors Hannah and Sam, by permission of all participants. Yesenia is an alum of Team Z, and this artifact bears substantial similarity to the video-based story the team composed several months after her departure. In…
I heard Liz ask Zoe about how school was going, and she said her grades were some good and some bad (two A’s, two F’s). Liz then said, “Oooh, tell me about the A’s.” I ordered an iced coffee and came back to the table. I listened as the group chatted for a bit, then…
I arrived 20–30 minutes after the start time Hannah had given me, possibly because Beaumont Square is near where I was living at the time and I was trying to squeeze too many things in before walking over. However, I think I was also operating on the assumption that as a matter of ethnographic presence,…
On October 4, 2018, shortly after relocating to a West Coast metropolitan area, I attended a worship service celebrating the appointment of a new leader serving a regional church role there. I arrived late, because my hometown baseball team was in the playoffs, and I stopped in nearby pub to watch the end of the…
