scrapbook post week ending 2021 September 10
"Go to Marie. She'll teach you." - Erna Brodber Louisiana: A Novel
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“It’s to the point where I hide in plain sight. Why is mom under a blanket sitting in the middle of the sofa? Writing on her phone in Google Docs while in her invisible forcefield,” said Ashley Franklin, author of Better Together, Cinderella, Xavier’s Voice, Not Quite Snow White, and essays in the collections Once Upon An Eid and What We Didn’t Expect. from https://lithub.com/the-heartbreaking-ingenuity-of-the-mother-writer/
Regardless, the writing continues.
“In a very real sense, every writing as revision makes the "discovery" all over again.” - Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” (1987)
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Not much here this week. Head is too full and stuffed with cotton and blades of grass to make sense of this moment. More soon.
Yes. More soon. Stay safe loves.
jmj