Comments on: Seeing History Through The Eyes of One Man http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/review-memoir-mao-chaozuh/ Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Wed, 16 May 2012 03:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/review-memoir-mao-chaozuh/comment-page-1/#comment-2019 jerrywaxler Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:01:18 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=224#comment-2019 Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Shirley. And I love the two websites you list. I am poking around trying to absorb the beauty of the site www.fetzer.org, some sort of philanthropic organization, which quotes Margaret Mead saying, "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has." Why not dream that we too can heave ourselves into the fray and make a difference in our own right? Jerry Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Shirley. And I love the two websites you list. I am poking around trying to absorb the beauty of the site http://www.fetzer.org, some sort of philanthropic organization, which quotes Margaret Mead saying, “Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world – indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” Why not dream that we too can heave ourselves into the fray and make a difference in our own right?

Jerry

]]> By: Shirley http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/review-memoir-mao-chaozuh/comment-page-1/#comment-2013 Shirley Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:30:58 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=224#comment-2013 Jerry, I love your view of memoir as collective memory rather than individual memory only. If enough of us read, write, buy, and share memoirs, we will truly build strong cultural fabric. From the headlines in today's paper, it looks like we will need all the stories of survival from the past we can find! We cannot destroy the past, but when we try, the results, as in the Cultural Revolution, are tragic. Our lives, on the other hand, especially when viewed as a whole, are comedic--in the most profound sense of that word. http://www.100memoirs.com http://www.fetzer.org Jerry,

I love your view of memoir as collective memory rather than individual memory only. If enough of us read, write, buy, and share memoirs, we will truly build strong cultural fabric. From the headlines in today’s paper, it looks like we will need all the stories of survival from the past we can find!

We cannot destroy the past, but when we try, the results, as in the Cultural Revolution, are tragic.

Our lives, on the other hand, especially when viewed as a whole, are comedic–in the most profound sense of that word.

http://www.100memoirs.com
http://www.fetzer.org

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