Six Sentence Sunday

~ lindawis

This Six Sentence Sunday post is an excerpt from my memoir, Off Kilter, published in 2008 by Pearlsong Press.

“I wish I could draw in your mind a picture of that place, exactly as it was, warmly lit by a clear sunlight making sharp shadows on a concrete sidewalk. Beside the sidewalk, up to its very edge, grew clouds of Queen Anne’s lace, sky-colored chicory, purple and white clover and the flowers whose names I still don’t know, the red-orange ones my mother called firemen.

I believe the sounds and smells and the picture are the makings of my childhood solitude, protected and holy. They transformed my loneliness into a safe, enriched, alive state of being, of perfect awareness of each blade of grass and waving flower. There is a place where nature is an open-armed friend, always waiting to welcome and enfold me in its breeze’s caress, its warm sun’s kiss, its clear, illuminating light. This is the place I am from. “

Published by lindawis

I write features for a weekly newspaper, a column on women authors for a bimonthly paper, and have published dozens of essays and memoirs. My work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. My memoir, Off Kilter, was published in 2008 by Pearlsong Press and my unpublished novel, Where the Stork Flies, was a finalist for the 2015 Eludia Award. I teach memoir workshops and speak on the healing power of writing.

11 thoughts on “Six Sentence Sunday”

  9. I love this description! It's a place I've never been but it transports me there and also to my own childhood as it evokes a child's close observation of the world!

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