Post #23 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing and Healing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
We are so often admonished to “stay in the moment,” to “be in the here and now” that it’s become a cultural cliché.
“Don’t look back,” we are urged, slightly frantically. “Forget about the past,” and even, “get over it!”
But for memoir writers returning to the past is staying in the moment, as we breathe brilliant color into shadowy scenes of yesterday.
Historian and memoirist, A.L. Rowse, wrote: “To hear about the old days and the old people, sitting by my father… opened a window into the realm of the mind away from the present which I never liked much. It needed to become the past before it had much savor for me.” [click to continue…]
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