Category: wilma dykeman

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What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Ourselves and Our World?

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Our lives consist of stories, both stories about things we experience and things that we construct from the myriad of threads that enter into the very fiber of our being. Growing up, Wilma Dykeman saw “an old bent man” walking by her house most days. She looked at him “with hungry curiosity” and thought of him as “someone from a story-book, someone unreal and … Read More What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Ourselves and Our World?

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Look at the Landscape Through Your Legs: How Our Imagination Shapes Our View of the World

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In her posthumously published memoir Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood, Wilma Dykeman asks us to think about the ways that we process reality and the stories we hear and share. Dykeman wrote the manuscript in her twenties in the early 1940s. Early on, she details learning to walk and learning to speak, moments that most people do not remember at all. I know, … Read More Look at the Landscape Through Your Legs: How Our Imagination Shapes Our View of the World

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