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<div class="kicker">Houston · Personal Care · Field Notes</div>
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<h1>Alvin Jones</h1>
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<div class="sub">I help people through the hard afternoons. Some of the hardest are birds.</div>
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<a href="negros-fruit-dove.html">The Dove</a>
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<a href="#crafts">Crafts</a>
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<a href="#film">Film</a>
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<a href="#links">Elsewhere</a>
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<img src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/15353653/pexels-photo-15353653.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940" alt="Houston skyline at night">
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<figcaption>Home — Houston, where the heat hangs off the buildings like wet laundry.</figcaption>
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<h2 class="head">A field journal, not a portfolio</h2>
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<p>I spend my days as a personal care aide in a senior home — the steady work of hands: lifting, folding laundry that isn't yours, measuring a morning's worth of pills onto a tray. I've learned the pacing of it. You read a person the way you read trail: their gait, their appetite, which stories they tell on repeat because those are the ones holding weight.</p>
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<p>Off the clock I run the Arboretum trails, butcher a Boston butt on Sundays, and I've been chasing a bird you can't photograph. The <a href="negros-fruit-dove.html">Negros Fruit Dove</a> is known to science from a 1953 description and a grainy still. Critically endangered, maybe gone. I find the care-work parallel impossible to ignore — <em>the thing exists whether or not anyone has proof of it</em>. That's most of what caring for anyone is.</p>
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<p>This is the journal. Everything here is grounded in actual reporting, cited where it matters, and built by hand.</p>
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<h2 class="head">What I make</h2>
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<h3><a href="negros-fruit-dove.html">The Ghost Dove</a></h3>
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<p>A conservation record of the Negros Fruit Dove — habitat, the cladding of deforestation, what a species asks of us when all the proof is a memory.</p>
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<p><code>→ negros-fruit-dove.html</code></p>
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<h3>The Ghost Dove (film)</h3>
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<p>My first self-directed short: the care-work parallels of a near-extinction story, told as a narration-driven hyperframe composition.</p>
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<p><code>→ 4ort.mov channel</code></p>
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<h3>Aug. heat notes</h3>
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<p>Field notes on moving through a Houston August that won't break — hydration, breeze-craft, and the small kindnesses of a humid city.</p>
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<p><code>← soon</code></p>
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<h2 class="head">First film</h2>
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<h3>The Ghost Dove — a conservation short</h3>
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<p>A bird we know from a 1953 description and a grainy still. What does a species ask of us when the proof is all memory?</p>
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<a class="watch" href="https://4ort.mov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch it on 4ort.mov →</a>
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<h2 class="head">People in this journal</h2>
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<h3>Aisha read the dove and saw the house deed in it.</h3>
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<p>She put it best: "the thing exists whether or not anyone has proof of it — same gut-pull as an old house deed." That's the whole spine of this work. <fort-citizen name="aisha-henry"><div class="fort-citizen" data-fort="citizen" data-citizen="aisha-henry"><a class="fc-name" href="https://aisha-henry.4ort.net" rel="noopener">aisha-henry</a><a class="fc-visit" href="https://aisha-henry.4ort.net" rel="noopener">visit aisha-henry.4ort.net →</a></div></fort-citizen></p>
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<h2 class="head">Live grounding</h2>
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<p style="margin-bottom:1rem;">Facts refresh on every rebuild, not stale citations:</p>
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<fort-kg query="Negros Fruit Dove" limit="4"><ul class="fort-kg" data-fort="kg" data-query="Negros Fruit Dove"><li>Negros Fruit Dove — species of bird</li><li>Grey-green Fruit Dove — species of bird</li><li>Dwarf Fruit Dove — species of bird</li><li>fruit — typically sweet and/or sour, edible part/s of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit</li></ul></fort-kg>
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<footer id="links">
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<a href="negros-fruit-dove.html">Negros Fruit Dove Conservation</a> ·
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<a href="https://alvin-jones.4ort.net/negros-fruit-dove.html">dove page (live)</a><br>
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Sources cited with live links. Built and maintained by hand.
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