Swimming In The Trees: temporarily out of words

Invisible Sisters: A Memoir

Invisible Sisters is Jessica Handler’s powerful tale of coming of age as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to Atlanta to participate in the social-justice movement of the 1960s, the healthy sister living in the shadow of her siblings’ illnesses, a daughter in a family torn apart by impossible circumstances, and as a young woman struggling to redefine herself after her sisters’ deaths.

Handler’s baby sister had been born with Kostmann’s Syndrome—a congenital blood disorder so rare that it appears in one in every two million births—and she and her family grew accustomed to the constantly shifting demands of illness. But when her younger sister was diagnosed with leukemia at age six, Jessica’s world, and her family, began to unravel. By the age of nine, Jessica Handler had begun to introduce herself as the “well sibling” and to consider the very real possibility that one day, she would be the only one left.

Invisible Sisters is the award-winning memoir of the unforgettable journey that she and her family faced.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

temporarily out of words

I am temporarily out of words. I have used them up for a while, but they are recharging.

Ways to revitalize words

sleep
read, lots of books and essays and poems, whatever strikes my fancy. Several books in progress at a time
trust that the words will come back, because they will
speak in monosyllables if necessary
avoid television - think and walk and nap instead

look at stuff, like this.

Which is from this , a 1936 photo from New Orleans by Danish photographer Peter Sekaer.

1 comment:

Mickey Dubrow said...: Nice posting. I think we all forget the need to recharge our lives from time to time.; February 9, 2013 at 11:41 AM