by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 06/25/2023
Beyond fire and the wheel, there is language, and there is language immortalized. Writing likely began as an effort at simple adornment. A crude representation of a memory scratched onto a cave wall. Sometime well before the caves of Lascaux, writing gradually took form around 10-15 thousand years ago.
What do these ancient images tell us? The mind ponders and wanders. I can divine some images as a shopping list:
“Honey, on your way home pick up some bison, and if it’s still in season – a mastodon.”
What is key is that these first efforts at recorded memory reveal the experiences of early humans. As language became refined over the millennia, we could include abstractions (the future?) and convey experiences and concepts to later generations who would follow us.
Today, many of us write for our own enjoyment. Personally, I view writing as a mental full-contact sport. Our Senior Center Writers Group (aka, The Scribblers) has just completed our third book. It’s a lovely romp through seventy-seven pages of our past short works. All dressed up for the press run, our latest works will be released later this Summer.
Writings from the Senior Scribblers. Coming soon to a Senior Center near you.
Will you be in our next book? Join our group. Write on, man! Write on!
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