I actively write because it clears my mind. So when I go to capture moments of my life through madly typing on my computer keys, I tend to lose myself in the world of which I'm thinking. I rarely look back and look at what was going on around the moment I am capturing, or the world in which it happened. As I read this weeks reading, this quote grabbed my full attention. Ray's ability to win power with words had me completely stop and think about my own writing. I write about what happens, and rarely about where or when or how it actually happened. We get moving so fast that my hands have typed the picture in my head and my feelings without really exploring the aspects in which I experienced it.
As a teacher, this would be a most powerful lesson to look back on. I can take an old writing piece and revisit it. I can tackle my memory for what I was surrounded by, who I was with, and the true life and times of how it happened. We can add details, settings, feelings, smells, and other elements that would finally, truly, capture the moment as it is engraved in my own memory.
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