Post #28 – Women’s Memoirs, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
By Bettyann Schmidt
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain….I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained
I’m quoting from my current read: The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. When I read this on the page, I realized the profundity of the statement. Life on this earth is not happiness and sunshine every day, and must we to treat it as such? In my scrapbook stories, I’ve tried to tell the truth, included the bad as well as the good, but it didn’t come easy. [click to continue…]
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