![]() ![]() I've reach backward in memory to my childhood and young adulthood, but the process of writing has taken me forward, and continues to do so. Writing has turned me in ways I didn't know I was going to go - both outward and inward. Writing works on memory, compressing and doubtless distorting the past, and offers bodies for the inspection of reader and writer alike. Amber can be remarkably clear, but the piece that conserves a suspended life is even more valuable. Tropes transport memories and transform them, as resin is transformed under pressure into amber, sometimes with a small, ancient bit of life suspended inside. Each sentence begun can wander off, sometimes irretrievably into confusion and mistake,s sometimes to greater clarity. ![]() Writing offers, not a way out, but a way into the impossible dilemmas of not-knowing. ![]() Writing helps to teach us what we can't know otherwise, which makes it a demanding and invaluable discipline. “Writing, no matter the subject, has its way with the writer. ![]()
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