Post #62 – Women’s Memoir Writing, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
by Bettyann Schmidt
Voices From Your Past
“When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces
of friends we used to cherish and loves we used to know.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Being Christmas week, I wanted to use the above quote because of the appropriateness of the season, but also because it so clearly speaks of this subject. The people we used to know, the friends and family, and others who weren’t even closely tied to us, their voices “ringing from lands of long ago.”
Long ago might mean a year or two for some, and for others maybe a lifetime. [click to continue…]
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