http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirist-amidst-my-memories/ 140 Essays to Help You Read and Write Memoirs by Jerry Waxler Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:00:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirist-amidst-my-memories/#comment-112 Trauma shatters story. Memoir helps rebuild it. Thu, 24 May 2007 11:05:57 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=23#comment-112 [...] The world was smashed apart that day, and while seeing it on television filled me with horror, oddly, meeting Van Why gave me hope. By telling his story, I believe he has started to rebuild his life. After the great Yellowstone Fire in 1988 that devastated hundreds of thousands of acres, news photos the following year showed spring flowers emerging from the charcoal black landscape. In a similar vein, I see Van Why’s book, “That day in September, a personal remembrance of 9/11” as a flower emerging from the rubble. While his book is an attempt to describe and make sense of the past, the result is an understanding that will carry him, and us into the present and the future. See my previous post on meeting Van Why. [...] [...] The world was smashed apart that day, and while seeing it on television filled me with horror, oddly, meeting Van Why gave me hope. By telling his story, I believe he has started to rebuild his life. After the great Yellowstone Fire in 1988 that devastated hundreds of thousands of acres, news photos the following year showed spring flowers emerging from the charcoal black landscape. In a similar vein, I see Van Why’s book, “That day in September, a personal remembrance of 9/11” as a flower emerging from the rubble. While his book is an attempt to describe and make sense of the past, the result is an understanding that will carry him, and us into the present and the future. See my previous post on meeting Van Why. [...]

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