Showing posts with label How the Home of Your Past Influences Your Present Preferences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How the Home of Your Past Influences Your Present Preferences. Show all posts

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Mini Memoir Moment: The Power of Place in Your Writing


by Marcia Moston @MarciaMoston

How the Home of Your Past Influences Your Present Preferences

Think about a place of your childhood. What first comes to mind? Whether it’s the family kitchen, the grandparents’ woodshed, the baseball field, or the big tree in the backyard, our earliest memories are attached to a place. Places stick in our minds because they embody something more than the physical space they occupy. The places of our lives, especially those of our childhood, are saturated with emotional and psychological associations.