Where the HeArt is by Pat Rosier

Author:Pat Rosier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: friendship, poetry, family, arts, london, new zealand, new york, paris, washington dc, lesbian characters
Publisher: Pat Rosier

Chapter 11

Chloe, Chris and Jo are all asleep on Chloe's bed when Ann gets in. In her attic room she finds a pen and paper and does sums. How long could she live without a job, a real income? Where would she live? With her parents would be sensibly cheap, can she stand to be living in her parents' house for one, two years? Will she feel like a teenager again? And Lower Hutt? She can still remember the relief of moving into Wellington when she was, what? Eighteen? Nineteen? against her parents' sensible arguments. What about putting her house money back into a house while it’s a buyers' market? Does she need to live in the city? Should she go up the coast? Otaki maybe, or the less fashionable parts of the Wairarapa?

She has no idea what it costs her to live. Savings, yes, unaffected by this trip, thanks to Uncle John. House money. No dependents. There are courses on children's writing, should she do one, be a student?. Learn the basics, make some contacts. Join the Children's Literature Association.

On fancy’s wild and roving wing I sail.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s concern was the state of the nation rather than one foolish woman’s future, but her line fits. It also reminds Ann that what reputation she has is as a Romanticist, a specialist in the Romantic era.

What does she know about children's books? Or children for that matter. Who does she think she is, J.M.Barrie? Sheesh! She’s doing her own head in. Do something practical, something with immediate results. Take ingredients, make a meal, that's what she needs to do, something hands-on.

Oh-oh, what’s that Paul Klee painting doing hovering in the back of her mind? The Twittering Machine, that’s it, and the one with the legs, Viaducts Break Ranks. And Fish Magic. Stories that bring kids into art, gets them away from the telly and their ipods even. Or leads them into games where they make their own stories. Whoa, Ann, slow down, cook supper, think gestation periods.

Later, singing nursery rhymes with the twins brings up a whole other approach: rhymes to go with paintings.

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