Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Wow!  I've read two amazing memoirs in one week:  "Hunger" by Roxane Gay, then Sherman Alexie's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me".  Both raw and real and passionate.  Both as complex as people's lives really are.  Both involved the writer being raped as a child.  Both triumphant in strengthening their voices and points of view.  Such writing energizes me.  It has the shivery chill of truth.  It inspires me to be more truthful and hug the goal of right speech.  I love the way Alexie mixes poetry and prose and therefore makes the writing multidimensional.  How joyous great writing is, no matter what the subject matter.  How freeing.  And maybe it's my age, but memoir is my favorite reading material.  Next is biography, and then history.  What a turnabout for me.  Stories, stories, stories of real people living life the messy, true way.  Wow!