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From: Sally Miller <derbymiller_at_fuse.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:21:02 -0500
I too would like to thank Mr.Tingle. First, for his eye-opening and much-needed books, then in addition for his kind and illuminating comments. I would also like to express my gratitude to everyone for the fascinating, thought-provoking discussion. There were so many times when I wanted to join in--to agree, to disagree, to speak my own "truth." But as I approach my 80th birthday, I realize that the time I have for learning from others is not growing any longer, so just listening and learning is often the best thing to do. (And I have learned much from this discussion.) But there is one thing I would like to venture. As a writer, I have found that I do not always choose whom I write about. If I write "out side my culture," and I have, it is not always a choice I have made. It's more something given to me or demanded of me. Can I compare it to an assignment without sounding entirely off-the-wall? I'm sorry, I know this sounds a little strange, but that's how it is. So I go with what I have been given, write the best I can. Then the reader can accept , reject, decide whether or not I got it right. But no one else has the right to decide what or about whom I can write. Let me just add, everytime I pick up my pencil or approach the keyboard, I do so with "fear and trepidation." (I love how those two words always want to go hand in hand.) As I have approached even this. Thanks again, everyone. I am looking forward to the second half of our discussion.
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:21:02 -0500
I too would like to thank Mr.Tingle. First, for his eye-opening and much-needed books, then in addition for his kind and illuminating comments. I would also like to express my gratitude to everyone for the fascinating, thought-provoking discussion. There were so many times when I wanted to join in--to agree, to disagree, to speak my own "truth." But as I approach my 80th birthday, I realize that the time I have for learning from others is not growing any longer, so just listening and learning is often the best thing to do. (And I have learned much from this discussion.) But there is one thing I would like to venture. As a writer, I have found that I do not always choose whom I write about. If I write "out side my culture," and I have, it is not always a choice I have made. It's more something given to me or demanded of me. Can I compare it to an assignment without sounding entirely off-the-wall? I'm sorry, I know this sounds a little strange, but that's how it is. So I go with what I have been given, write the best I can. Then the reader can accept , reject, decide whether or not I got it right. But no one else has the right to decide what or about whom I can write. Let me just add, everytime I pick up my pencil or approach the keyboard, I do so with "fear and trepidation." (I love how those two words always want to go hand in hand.) As I have approached even this. Thanks again, everyone. I am looking forward to the second half of our discussion.
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