Memories of the Future
Letters of an examined life – letter #8
Writing is about connection. It is about finding those commonalities through shared experience. So when Lily Dunn and I discovered each other’s work we both thought: ‘now this is a woman I could sit down and chat with for hours over a bottle of wine’. Yet geography – the miles between us – made that impossible. So instead we committed to writing letters to one another, to discuss life, memoir, writing craft and more. And in this series, Memories of the Future: letters of an examined life, we have share those unedited – and often very personal – letters with you, our readers.
Lily published Letter #7 on her Substack on Wednesday, and you can catch up with that here – you may like to read it before reading my response, which includes an invitation to you as we take a short break.
And so to letter #8…
Dear Lily,
Thank you, as always, for your letter. There was so much buried in there – like treasure – for us to discuss, but first I want to tell you that last week I celebrated my birthday and…