Dynamic Woman — Changing Times
On December 9, 2013 I received a Super Blogger Award from the lovely Alexandra Caselle. I met Alexandra on She Writes. There are strings attached. I have to reveal a secret and and pass the award along to a deserving someone I consider a super blogger. These are my instructions:
John Updike captured the stubborn futility of hanging onto our stuff in his short story, “The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe”—he calls it “thrift’s absurd inertia.”
The value we attach to an experience often comes from the first person who shared the experience with us.
Like fiber artists, writers are people who like to pull disparate material together; solitary strands, swatches, and twists take on new meaning when woven, pieced, or braided together for a purpose. In fiber art, that purpose might be to clothe, decorate, or inspire. In story, writers work with words and images to endless purpose—to entertain, inform, shock, arouse…it’s a long list.
Remember the days when you printed your photos and cataloged them in albums? Got away from you, didn’t it. Now you have boxes of old photos you plan to organize when you retire. That won’t happen. No matter how many cruises you take, those photos will be there when you get back. Not only that, they’ll be entertaining the boxes of photos you’ve inherited.
Today I sat at my father’s secretary desk and hand wrote notes on a stack of computer generated Christmas newsletters. The composition was a short here’s where we are now summary instead of an exhaustive 2012 in review. From using Christmas letterhead so old it was not designed to go through a printer, to sticking stamps on envelopes, the exercise had a blast from the past feel. Who does this anymore? And, what can I say people haven’t already seen on Facebook?
