{"id":531,"date":"2012-07-11T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2012-07-11T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T19:19:18","slug":"woc-writers-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"WOC Writers Write!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/imagejpeg_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-532\" title=\"WOC KC\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/imagejpeg_2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/imagejpeg_2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/imagejpeg_2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/imagejpeg_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-533\" title=\"WOC LYW\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/imagejpeg_3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/imagejpeg_3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/imagejpeg_3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Tuesday, July 10, 2012.\u00a0 Women of Color Writers gathered to socialize and WRITE!<\/p>\n<p>The group, led by Lori Young-Williams, as part of her Masters in Liberal Studies Program (I was her advisor for this particular class) has met irregularly to catch up on the amazing things these amazing women are doing AND to write!<\/p>\n<p>Lori randomly picked writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg&#8217;s book,<em> Old Friend from Far Away: How to Write Memoir<\/em>\u00a0 One was about love.\u00a0 This is as far as I got in the allotted ten minutes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Cold pizza for breakfast. Sausage, pepperoni, Canadian Bacon, green olives and black olives.\u00a0 I am here eating breakfast.\u00a0 Scrounging for coffee in this non-coffee drinking home.\u00a0 Here I am, 14 years after the divorce.\u00a0 Not remembering, yet knowing there was a time, an expectation, a sensitivity.\u00a0 What is it to be 64 and being nothing but memory-select memory of another time.\u00a0 What was so eventful, so uneventful that kept me running?\u00a0 Where did I run, to whom did I run?\u00a0 Love is still imagined.\u00a0 There is no knowing love, not in this lifetime.\u00a0 I will return, though I&#8217;d rather not.\u00a0 Next time, or the next I might know love, might not run from it, might embrace it, might know it for what it is, is not, I might accept it.\u00a0 Now I eat cold pizza,alone; my ex-husband I and were too full of ourselves to eat it while it was hot, the night before-although it took me fifteen minutes to choose five ingredients, five toppings that would fulfill both of us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>July 11, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Sherry Quan Lee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 10, 2012.\u00a0 Women of Color Writers gathered to socialize and WRITE! 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