One has left a version of oneself at the place of departure and it waits for us at the point of return - but she is not me when I get there.
Kirsty Gunn. My Katherine Mansfield Project.
I went out wandering with Mari Lena, a new friend, an Italian staying here too. And we found these beautiful flowers growing on the side of the road. It's so lush here in Rarotonga.
The notion of home is coming at me from all over, in my reading ... in my everyday life too, as I head home after 6 years away, after 8 years away before that.
I'm about to buy an e-book. This extract came from it ...
It's an idea that has always preoccupied me - that notion of creative process as a making, a willed brick-by-brick, word-by-word building of a place on the page that might let a story inhabit it - to create a home of words, where I, the writer, may also live.
Kirsty Gunn, from My Katherine Mansfield Project.