With my visitors this last week, I have not thrown myself into a new book – but we have all been going for the non-fiction option.
It’s a long time since I did a history or science class, and I’ve never written a paper on disaster responses, but these were just some of the areas I was talking about with the people I had staying.
It’s reminded me that there is a whole lot of information out there that might give me a different approach to my work.
In fact one of the topics I was reading up on was a disaster I remember even though I was only about nine when it happened; the images were so memorable and I can still see the scene as though on a tv.
It’s given me an idea for a kind of memorial poem, a piece that never mentions the specific event but draws my memories together to make a new piece.
Which goes to show that even if I don’t read a book, a newspaper or a historical article might be a good substitute for learning something new.
And in this case, what I learnt was that we can be affected by something even if we weren’t personally involved – and even if we don’t think about it without encouragement.
Happy reading,
EJ
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