A Woman's Voice

Recent Events 

Here in the US

have reminded us all

 of the importance of:

Bloggers Dream

A L O H A !

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" Our doubts are traitors

and make us lose the good

we often might win,

by fearing to attempt. "

Jane Addams

"You are made

in the image

of what you

desire. "

Thomas Merton

" A great Truth

is a truth

whose opposite

is also

a Truth. "

Thomas Mann

" You will not become a saint

through other people's sins. "

Anton Chekhov

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She dreamed her whole life

but it was not to be.

From girlhood

she had longed for recognition

as a Serious Writer.

At 14 years old

she began a diary;

Four line entries

-five years of them-

without a day

missed.

"That's nice, Dear.

Run along now."

She edited the literary magazine

at Hunter College,

got her Masters in English Literature

at Columbia in 1936.

 Eventually she wrote articles

for ladies magazines,

 inviting friends

for conversation at

 her Salon

(her parents' living room)

attracting a couple

of literary lights,

Poet John Berryman

among them.

But she never broke out of

the Ladies Pages herself.

In 2003

a steamer trunk

was placed in a dumpster

on a New York City street.

The red leather diary

caught the eye of a worker

who passed it on

to Lilly Koppel.

Mz Koppel

wrote an article about the diarist

in the New York Times,

2008 saw the publication of her book

" The Red Leather Diary:

Reclaiming a Life

Through the Pages

of a Lost Journal. "

The two women became friends.

Profiles of the diarist

ran in publications

around the circuit.

Tuesday before last,

Florence Wolfson Howitt

the diarist

died at age 96

at her Florida home.

So keep blogging.

One day

there may be an email

in YOUR in-box

from Ariana Huffington,

or the Pulitzer people.

Just keep blogging.

Chronicle your Times,

your Places,

Your Unique Life.

Lives?

I firmly believe

that decades from now

Sociologists

will devote themselves

to studying these unique documents

that You & I

create.

Perhaps someone will write an article

in the Times

about You too!

And You still around

to be feted.

THAT

would be SWEET!

Sweet like your dear visit,

that touches me

with human warmth

& connection.

Thank YOU

Thanks for looking in today !

Warmly, cloudia