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Jason McBride's avatar

Your work has such a strong spoken-word brilliance to it! I had to read this micro out loud. The rhythm was so delightful.

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Mel's avatar

You are such a great describer! 💜

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Gianni Simone's avatar

I'm going to quote you quoting your grandmother in my book.

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Amie McGraham's avatar

I would love that! If you want to quote her directly, her name is Barbara Webster. It was written in “The Color of the Country,” a Pennsylvania newspaper column she wrote for a few years in the 1960s. Either way, we are both honored.

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Gianni Simone's avatar

Thank you, Amie. I'll keep you posted.

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Just beautiful!!! I especially appreciate your post today as I'm beginning to work on a new series of paintings of rooms... the things we surround ourselves with tell stories don't they? And we create these stories...

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Jillian Hess's avatar

Gorgeous! I love the ideas in this one. Making room for one's self, reading old newspapers, remembering things said.

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Amie McGraham's avatar

There are, ah, very old journals, Jillian...

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Jillian Hess's avatar

Really? I think I missed that in the post. Did you get your grandmother's words from her journal?

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Jillian Hess's avatar

Oooo looking forward!

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Amie McGraham's avatar

You didn’t miss it--some gems from the journal will probably appear in a future micro! (Her quote was from one of the columns she wrote for a PA newspaper).

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Vicki Smith's avatar

I imagine some questions are answered and others are raised.

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Amie McGraham's avatar

And sometimes, those that went unanswered for decades begin to materialize the deeper I go.

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Ancestral Ephemera's avatar

Beautiful. It's as though she was writing TO you. This is why we write.

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Amie McGraham's avatar

Well said!

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sarah e webb's avatar

For this is what happens: you belong to it, not it to you.” love this

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