Molly Merrow's Blog - Posts Tagged "inspiration"
Inspiration
Readers of “Edmund's Tale, Growing up with disabilities” have asked me about when I decided to collaborate with Edmund on a book about his life. I had always thought a book was too mighty an undertaking for little old me, but then, as a newspaper reporter/editor, I was asked to do a story on a classroom at Florence Roche Elementary School in Groton MA. The teacher had assigned her students a project involving writing and illustrating their own books. These children had created wonderful, fanciful, dramatic stories, and made pictures to go along with their writings. These stories were each bound into individual books, and put together onto a shelf to make a unique lending library from which fellow students could check out these clever volumes and enjoy the creations of their classmates.
After spending time with these kids, and seeing the library they had created, I felt that I had no excuse for not putting together Edmund's story, with the photos I had take since his birth, of course with Edmund's help and inspiration.
I put together various versions, debating back and forth what to include, and what should be left out. There were so many stories, and so many darling photos of Edmund and his family. But that is another story for another time, another blog post.
I am so glad I got to meet those young authors at Florence Roche. I wonder if they, in the interceding years, have been inspired to publish books for wider publication, thanks to their creative teacher. It is so easy to say you can't do something because it is too hard, or too complicated, but when you see these talented children taking on such a task and succeeding, then you just have to throw aside the excuses and do it.
After spending time with these kids, and seeing the library they had created, I felt that I had no excuse for not putting together Edmund's story, with the photos I had take since his birth, of course with Edmund's help and inspiration.
I put together various versions, debating back and forth what to include, and what should be left out. There were so many stories, and so many darling photos of Edmund and his family. But that is another story for another time, another blog post.
I am so glad I got to meet those young authors at Florence Roche. I wonder if they, in the interceding years, have been inspired to publish books for wider publication, thanks to their creative teacher. It is so easy to say you can't do something because it is too hard, or too complicated, but when you see these talented children taking on such a task and succeeding, then you just have to throw aside the excuses and do it.
