Mary Ellen Gambutti

Permanent Home: A Memory Collection (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Permanent Home: A Memory Collection of lyrical vignettes reflecting the loss and privilege of an adopted Air Force daughter in the 1950s and 1960s, the gardening vocation that was curtailed by a health crisis, and her quest that brings the reward of self-discovery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mary Ellen Gambutti
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215914373
• Artikelnr.: 66009179

Autorenporträt

My earliest memories were formed from words and music. My first five months are mostly unaccounted for, but the couple who would adopt me sang and smiled, talked, and read to me. I studied Webster's Dictionary at bedtime from age eight and wrote personal poems. Reading, vocabulary, grammar, and spelling sustained my interest in school when Air Force transfers disrupted my elementary education. I let go of word-stringing: jottings, notes, lists, letters, essays, and poetry when at age fifty-eight I was stricken with a brain hemorrhage. While recovering at home, after months of hospital rehab, I was eager to return to writing. I summed up my tenure as president of our 55+ community garden club, where I guided the pruning and planting, imparting my horticulture training. Retiring my desktop newsletter, "Gardener's Quarterly", I began to take online writing courses to suss the "why" and "how" of my life, beginning with the story of my stroke. I absorbed the memoirs of Natalie Goldberg, Annie Dillard, Brenda Miller, and many others, captivated by the words and meaning that poured from their souls. I practiced on my new laptop, typing with my formerly unfavored left hand, as I still do, taking stock of what has happened to me, as well as what I have made happen. Thus, writing memoirs is therapeutic, and life-affirming. I hope my words resonate with you.