What is this place?
Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.
It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
A proud member of Oxfordbloggers.com.
Elsewhere
Other places I can be found on the web.
- Follow me on twitter
- See my photography on flickr
- Current listening on last.fm
- What I’m linking to on del.icio.us
- My tumblr powered scrapbook of miscellanea
Remembering
My granny died yesterday.
She was an inspiration to me.
Not who she was in her later years. It’s horrible to say, but I found it difficult to relate to the frail person that I saw when I was back home visiting.
It’s horrible, but it’s the truth. Parkinson’s is a shit.
I mean the version of her from when I was young and still trying to work out my place in the world. The woman who one day, whilst walking me home from school, and after repeated questions from a twelve year old me, told me it was okay to not believe in a god.
She was a devout Catholic.
She told me it was okay to not believe.
My memories of her are as inexplicably bound with the imagery of the Roman Catholic Church as they are with the smell of her cooking.
She taught me to think for myself.
She showed me my place in the world.
Thank you Gran. I’ll miss you.