Post #31 – Memoir Writing, Journaling – Amber Starfire
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Eudora Welty, in One Writer’s Beginnings wrote,
“Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse.”
How true her statement seems to me. That a pulse of moments — an unsteady beat of image, emotion, impression — makes up the substance of our memories. Think about your own childhood. Isn’t it true that what you remember most are those moments when things were realized, understood, new, or puzzling? Moments of surprise or trauma? Moments that remain clear in your mind though they are surrounded by the unremembered mundane? [click to continue…]
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