‘Knocking on Doors …’

‘Knocking on Doors …’ by Ms Paige Turner
In response to my last bi-month’s blog ‘Memory, Misappropriation and Menageries …’ focusing on Tennessee Williams’s ‘The Glass Menagerie’, my former Creative Writing student Steve Givens from St Louis, Missouri, USA emailed me his story. Steve was visiting Florida as a 19-year-old English student and made a stop at Ernest Hemingway’s house when someone told him where the titanic Tennessee lived. Steve went there. He knocked on the playwright’s door and was invited in. Tennessee signed Steve’s copy of ‘The Glass Menagerie’ which he happened to have on his person and which he was studying at the time.
A couple of days after Steve emailed me his story, a young writer named Mbulelo Ngcubo from Cape Town whom I am guiding on his children’s book emailed me. Mbulelo had been to hear the award-winning novelist Patricia Schonstein (‘Skyline’) speak about her writing journey. Mbulelo approached Patricia after the talk and spoke of his own journey. She invited him to her home in Cape Town and gave him some helpful advice.
There is a touch of synchronicity here (timing is all) and when this happens, Jung might say, ‘Sit up and take notice’. Knocking on doors can be beneficial and I admire both Steve and Mbulelo’s courage. I also know them both to be the most unassuming of individuals. They are grateful, I am sure, for the hospitality of two great writers. I am grateful to have both of these productive writers in my life.
‘When This Is All Over …’ published by Creative ink is available on Amazon for the Rennie Grove Hospice Care.
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