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Writing about Taliesin
Mar. 30th, 2022 11:14 amIs there ever any doubt that I'd spend my time that way?
I'm trying to write the intro to the long anticipated book about Taliesin that people have told me to write for, oh, 20 years. I want to write about why "The Valley" in Wisconsin was so important to Wright & I brought up how the Valley & his Lloyd Jones relatives in the Valley helped him at the difficult emotional time in his teenage years when his parents' marriage was breaking up.
It just struck me that when my mother was growing up (as she told us one time) they were sent to their aunts or uncles farm during the summer. She thought it was maybe their way to get them out of the house where her father beat them all. And she never had a deep love of that place. She didn't completely write it out of her life, because we often went there in the summer (at least while we were little). But mom didn't have much love for it.
I'm trying to write the intro to the long anticipated book about Taliesin that people have told me to write for, oh, 20 years. I want to write about why "The Valley" in Wisconsin was so important to Wright & I brought up how the Valley & his Lloyd Jones relatives in the Valley helped him at the difficult emotional time in his teenage years when his parents' marriage was breaking up.
It just struck me that when my mother was growing up (as she told us one time) they were sent to their aunts or uncles farm during the summer. She thought it was maybe their way to get them out of the house where her father beat them all. And she never had a deep love of that place. She didn't completely write it out of her life, because we often went there in the summer (at least while we were little). But mom didn't have much love for it.
