Thinking About Memoir by Abigail Thomas

Author:Abigail Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781402772771
Publisher: Sterling

Write two pages about your feet.

Where there’s a will My sister Judy suggests that a good way to get going on memoir is to write your will. You have to decide who gets all your treasures, and this involves looking at them, and remembering where you found them. She reminds me that when my youngest daughter, Catherine, was a little girl, Judy took care of her for a week while her father and I went to Mexico. Catherine was fascinated by all Judy’s stuff and said, joyfully, “I can’t wait for you to die so I can have your things!”

Recently I heard Catherine say to one of her twin boys, as she carried him around my backyard, “Just think! Some day all this will be partially yours!”

A lawyer tells me that when writing your will, the legal term for one’s possessions is “the natural objects of my bounty.” How lovely that is, implying nothing of getting and spending, nothing that smacks of commercialism.

Write two pages about your treasures.

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