“Building Impetus for Change”

Abstract

In this short performative paper the author engages one of five points of entry that seek to “(playfully) play with possibilities inherent in [autoethnographic] writing for building an impetus for change, for mining the ‘gold’ of memory, for living deeply in the present moment, for constructing a hoped-for future, for emerging/recovering from the rubble.” Showing, as Christopher Poulus constructed the panel, ‘how our words may point us toward where we need to go’”.