Energized

Lesley University's graduate residency is heavenly. Like seriously, I walk in here and literally hear "The Hallelujah Chorus" because I suddenly am surrounded by people who think, read, and write like me. It is, as Robert Frost says in "Directive,"Here are your waters and your watering place./Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."

I will have very little time to write this week though you will find I probably will become more prolific in the weeks ahead. Though we have only done one writing exercise, this community charges me with it's energy. I can't wait to put pen to paper, fingers to keys in a fervor I haven't felt in years. I am making it my goal to develop my voice and persona for the memoir I'm writing-- and I feel like this blog is where I develop that voice--a character that is me, but not totally.

I want to ask those readers out there for suggestions of books that I can read--memoirists and essayists that write about similar topics, though in different ways and perspectives that I can read, imitate, and learn from to add breadth to my writing. I need to put together a study plan for the next semester and am charged in supplying some of my own reading.

Any suggestions?