Friday, March 20, 2009

MEMOIR

In writing down all these family trees and doings and kinships and histories, I've thrown out words with the abundant abandon of a snowplow---scattershot and adjective-laden and full of swooping phrases.

There's a new fad I've discovered: Six Word Memoirs. Condense the story of your life, or the memories or the tenor of your days into six words---concise, terse, telling.

All contributions welcome. This is one of mine:


I'VE HAD MORE FUN SINCE FORTY.


I'd love to hear everyone's own resume-in-a-nutshell.

6 comments:

  1. OK...I don't have one right now...but I'm gonna work on it! I'll get back to you....

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  2. Healing others makes me more human.

    Forests can withstand what trees cannot.

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  3. Ondine--

    Those are just lovely. I'm going to go put them in my 'Membering File right now.

    Thank you.

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  4. Small & large, they're my life.

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