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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: Izzy_*now* on August 02, 2009, 06:51:54 PM

Title: Can you do this? Please try! It might be telling!
Post by: Izzy_*now* on August 02, 2009, 06:51:54 PM
Six-Word Memoirs by Larry Smith
(Milestone birthdays in half a dozen words.)

Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to tell a story in only six words. Papa came back swinging with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Good stuff.

Years later, SMITH Magazine, the online community I founded for personal storytelling, posed a similar challenge: Can you tell your life story in six words? Tens of thousands of people responded, and the six-word memoir was born. We published our favorites in a book, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (Harper, 2008), the first in a series.

Here are a few favorites from the book:

Fifty, what the hell, just jump!

Slow learner: Life began at 50.

Barbie doesn't look 50, like me!

Defined at 21. Redefined at 57.

Nearing 60, still on rough draft.

Sixty. Still haven't forgiven my parents.

Age 70. Sexy dreams. What's next?

Yoga, meditation, workouts, art. 75. Strong.

Zero to 60 and still accelerating.

Sixty years pissin' in the breeze.

Sexy at 60, going for 70.
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My sister sent me that and my first thoughts were"
"Born, laughed, cried: broken and died!"

I had no idea I was so morbid!
Iz

Title: Re: Can you do this? Please try! It might be telling!
Post by: JustKathy on August 02, 2009, 10:35:49 PM
Broken at 15. Broken at 49.
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Post by: cantors.counter on August 03, 2009, 10:51:09 AM
Shadow of a person seeks existence.
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Post by: Gabben on August 03, 2009, 12:45:54 PM
darkness feeding fleeing seeking suffering freed...hope

six is not a number I like very much I prefer the number seven so I am going to break the rule and add one more word to make the biography of six words seven:

"HOPE"
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Post by: teartracks on August 03, 2009, 07:23:56 PM




Hi Iz,

Still bobbing around in pond slime!

tt
Title: Re: Can you do this? Please try! It might be telling!
Post by: Izzy_*now* on August 03, 2009, 07:34:29 PM
Well I guessed we would be a 'sad' group. This is interesting!

Special note to TT. I'm glad you didn't put a question mark at the end of yours. I read it that way first and didn't remember using that expression..................... there I go again!
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Post by: Portia on August 03, 2009, 08:18:36 PM
Born survived lost found no fear.

- or -

Human, end of line, no descendants.
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Post by: lighter on August 03, 2009, 09:21:19 PM


I love this Izzy: )


I'm going to think about it and come back.

Mo2
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Post by: Hopalong on August 03, 2009, 09:44:14 PM
Beagle with ears like condor wings.
Title: Re: Can you do this? Please try! It might be telling!
Post by: Sela on August 04, 2009, 12:39:08 AM
Good one Izzy!

Trying to survive, evolve, become humble.

Sela

PS:  Hiya P!
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Post by: lighter on August 04, 2009, 12:42:11 AM
Ummmm, Hops, lol?

I was drinking water while reading your memoir.

::tapping foot::

Reminded me the netti experience.  ::wiping screen with chidlren's sock::

Who.....

is the beagle?

And

why.....

are his ears like condor wings?

Now I've completely forgotten my memoir, lol.

Mo2
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Post by: lighter on August 04, 2009, 12:54:12 AM
Happy shy child, gone to wolves.


If only I'd learned self trust.


Within, yet another storm, finding center.


Choices? We do what we must.


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Post by: DOBA on August 04, 2009, 09:45:49 AM
Purposely Created
  Pathologically Oppressed
   Victorious Survivor!
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Post by: Hopalong on August 04, 2009, 08:34:23 PM
I like beagles.
My first pooch was a beagle. So gentle, such an ability to absorb all my sadness.
I would even, when I was very small, crawl in her little dog bed with her. She'd let me squash damply against her and just absorb it.

They seem to me to be among the most emotionally trustworthy creatures in the cosmos.

They are ubiquitous 'round here...lots of hunting dawgs left to breed, so the shelter is full of them. Confused, patient. Sweet. They have silly bugly voices. They run away a lot because they are supposed to be smelling everything across an open field, not on leashes! But when they're pets, they put up with it sweetly.

In a dull little beagle, might be large and unexpected things, great talents, inspirational abilities.

Condor wings? Breathtaking. Endangered. And will only survive if we humans get serious about where we live...

Plus, it's just funny.

When really asked to really think of myself, then...it feels best to see how absurd I am.

I like laughing at myself. (Flap, flap, buglebugle...awoooooo!)

xxoo
Hops
Title: Re: Can you do this? Please try! It might be telling!
Post by: Izzy_*now* on August 04, 2009, 11:52:34 PM
Hey Hops, Snoopy, in Peanuts, eh? A beagle?

Your post made me think of that happy, jumping, talking, sometimes oblivious, funny little  dog! The I searched him and his ears are kinda short but sometimes get longer and skinnier the happier he is, or the higher he jumps.
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Post by: Lollie on August 05, 2009, 09:44:24 PM
In six words?

"Reactived my account. How ya'll doing?"
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Post by: seasons on August 05, 2009, 11:00:14 PM
Good one!

Welcome back. seasons
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Post by: lighter on August 07, 2009, 09:54:27 AM
Oh, Hops....

what a touching story.

It makes my heart warm to think of you, snuggled in that little bed, comforted.... receiving fellowship from that little beagle.

My Grandparents had a little beagle named "Rusty."  He was a very happy hunting dog.



Mo2