Titled after an essay by science fiction writer Ursula LeGuin on the relationship between narrative and technology, this single channel video art installation explores the tensions of the desire to hold onto or capture life, and the ongoing flux of the endlessly transforming world. The digitized VHS video centers around the relationship between the artist and their father as a way into exploring questions about life and death, narrative structure, and how the mediating tools we look through turn back to shape the stories that hold us.