However, the angular design did give me a benefit. While drawing the daisy, realized another category to fill in. I found that at one point the daisy resembled a cross and I thought of the Christianity category. I am not religious, but I know that my grandmother is, so I am sure that it will be a topical part of the narrative. Since I am not that religiously minded, I may have forgotten this category had it not been for my angular daisy.
Genealogy is something that this project will definitely encompass. A large part of the project is motivated by me wanting to know more about my family's history to better understand myself. I am sure that I will be doing a lot of exploring in my own family's history.
The category “women” refers to my grandmother's experience as a woman. Something that I am sure is relevant to her life, but I am not sure how well I (as a man, and her grandson) will be able to uncover (or understand) some of the details of this category. I have heard some of her stories already, and some of them do relate to her experience as a woman of that era, so it is something I may want to explore.
History is a difficult category to define for this project. I am sure that I will be covering the personal history of my grandmother. But it is the larger history of the era that I am not sure about. I will likely try to draw the two areas together by supplementing my grandmother's oral account with other historical sources, in order to give some context to her stories. This is just an idea.
I am not sure if I am cheating with the “War” category or not. War is simply a fact of the era my grandmother lived in. So it could be said to be part of the broader “History” category...I am beginning to appreciate the plight of catalogers that we discuss in our Knowledge Organization lectures... in any case, I think it is relevant enough to warrant its own category, as war really shapes the history and lives of the period that it occurs in.
Language and Ethnography relates to my grandmother's background, and to the fact that ethnicity was an issue of the era. My grandmother is Polish, so the project will encompass her experience as a Pole during the German occupation, and also the struggles with language during that period, and later on.
I left one petal blank because I was having a tough time coming up with another category before the deadline...I will try to come back to the daisy later to get another category filled in. But I would also appreciate if anyone has a suggestion.
I decided to fill in the last petal of my daisy with "Censorship and Information". For this I am referring to the broad idea of information denial and surveillance that was an issue during my grandmother's life and experiences in Poland. She lived through a period in which many ethnic Poles were forbidden from attending school by the occupying Germans. And, following the war, the atmosphere of repression and surveillance present in the Communist Eastern Bloc. This petal also ties in better with the blogging question for this week.
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