About this episode
Mark A Miller discusses his journey as a green architect and the creation of the Love Notes app to help families connect across generations.
Mark A Miller ia a green architect and father of two young adults here in Chicago. "When my wife and I started our family, I was 36, the same age that my own father was when he died of a heart attack. As you can imagine, I was sweating bullets the first year of my daughter's life, worried I too may follow his fate. This forced me to ask myself, "should I die early, how can I keep loving and supporting my amazing daughter "from the other side". This lead me to think about where in our society is the place where the living come to meaningfully connect with the dead, which is a cemetery. As an architect I don't find the design of most cemeteries functions well for this act of "connecting". I've been re-imagining the design of cemetery into a much better model I call a "Spirit Park". In parallel to this goal, over the past 6 years I have created an app for parents, especially grandparents called Love Notes which helps parents and grandparents keep their hearts connected with their children/grandchildren now and forever. This mission is important to anyone thinking they may leave sooner than expected; people who are in their golden years or dealing with end of life issues." The Love…
People in this episode
Host: James Lott Jr
Guest: Mark A Miller
Topics covered
- parenting
- grief
- architecture
- cemetery design
- technology
- connection
Keywords
- Love Notes
- Spirit Park
- cemetery design
- parenting
- connection
- grief
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: www.lovenotes.club
Products: Love Notes, Love Notes Time Capsule app
Places: Chicago
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