{"id":1074,"date":"2016-05-23T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2016-05-23T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T18:00:39","slug":"the-news-that-keeps-you-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/the-news-that-keeps-you-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"The News That Keeps You Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-news\"<\/a><\/p>\n

American poet William Carlos Williams wrote: “It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

We mulled this statement during a fiction class by The Mill<\/a>, a place for writers in Appleton, Wisconsin. For weeks in the evening as the cold Spring turned warmer, six or seven of us gathered in a church schoolroom under the direction of author Steve Polansky to examine the basics of fiction, from the history of words to something bigger, like the stanza above.<\/p>\n

Telling the news, we decided, is the whole point of our creative work.<\/strong> It is on us to tell the news of what it means to be human. On us to explore what it means to exist.<\/p>\n

I found the news early in Anne Shirley, L.M. Montgomery’s beloved fictional character, who taught me that we all dream and long for love and make mistakes.<\/p>\n

I found it in folk music at my wedding as we danced hand-in-hand, compelled by the art of music to move and smile.<\/p>\n

I found it in a painting, The Old Guitarist, which was created during Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period. His painting reminded me that suffering and struggle are part of this life, which is important to notice because I might be able to help.<\/p>\n

In Arrows<\/em><\/a>, I told the news that love is respect. That true love empowers us to become our best self.<\/p>\n

I told the news because someone might lack it, and be brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American poet William Carlos Williams wrote: “It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” We mulled […]<\/p>\n

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