tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6608134443246627504.post4348013553512299800..comments2024-03-26T04:42:51.815-06:00Comments on Page Lambert: All Things Literary & All Things Natural : A "Country Club" or a COUNTRY community?Connecting People with Nature, and Writers with Wordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01843366084313026823noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6608134443246627504.post-80797336350667041572008-10-18T12:05:00.000-06:002008-10-18T12:05:00.000-06:00Dear Invisible Bees - your question is such a prof...Dear Invisible Bees - your question is such a profound one: how to find comfort in a place that doesn't feel natural to you. I just returned from speaking at a Women Writing West symposium in Denver with several other authors - Pam Houston, Deirdre McNamer, Teresa Jordan, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Alyson Hagy, and Karen Volkman. Three of the women were raised in the east (or south), and not the West. Creating a sense of "home" in an unfamiliar landscape is not easy. Are you writing about the little hamlet along Lake Ontario? I hope so. But I hope you are also writing about the stories that reveal themselves to you here in this new landscape. Not your husband's stories, but your stories - encounters, small and large, with the people you meet in your neighborhood, the plants you find growing in your yard, the birds you hear singing in the trees. By learning their stories, you will begin to create your own narrative and relationship with where you live. Reading authors who write about Colorado, and the West, will help too. All the best to you, Page.Connecting People with Nature, and Writers with Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01843366084313026823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6608134443246627504.post-26622707697656696492008-10-17T17:35:00.000-06:002008-10-17T17:35:00.000-06:00Page, I love this post. I love how you pay homage ...Page, I love this post. I love how you pay homage to your ancestors and to the land and the many different life forms with whom you share the land. ...I've been thinking a lot lately about the place where I'm from, often longing for it. It's a tiny Hamlet along Lake Ontario way back East and it's effect on me is unshakable. I try to find locations here that remind me of the land and sky (and water--though that's tricky) and smells... it's hard to feel comfortable in a place that doesn't feel "natural to me." <BR/><BR/>Currently, I live in the place where my husband is from, literally; we're in the house he grew up in. I'm trying to get inside this house, this property, its dirt and views, it's place here in Northern Colorado and in the West... my husband says, very strongly, he's from the West, it's part of his chemistry. I wish I could figure out how to embrace this place now and grow into it so it feels "natural" and like home.<BR/><BR/>Any advice?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6608134443246627504.post-30810951892108252462008-10-15T10:14:00.000-06:002008-10-15T10:14:00.000-06:00Susan, thank you the great feedback. I enjoyed re...Susan, thank you the great feedback. I enjoyed reading your interview on your web site blog. Congratulations on the good feedback on your novel, SEEKING SARA SUMMERS!Connecting People with Nature, and Writers with Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01843366084313026823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6608134443246627504.post-52665560117504214892008-10-15T10:00:00.000-06:002008-10-15T10:00:00.000-06:00This is a beautiful blog. Very well-written and ge...This is a beautiful blog. Very well-written and genuine. I am also a writer in Colorado who has a blog and writes about elk and other wildlife (as well as the writing process)-- www.susangabriel.com/blog--if you want to check it out.<BR/><BR/>Good work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com