I'll Tell You A Secret
A Memory Of Seven Summers
“Memory opens for me through my body. I slip back because I catch a smell, hear a sound, or hold an evocative flavour on my tongue. But these single-sense glimpses of or gusts from the past are often fleeting. More compelling for me, more total, is when my whole body, the entire surface of my skin, and my muscles’ movements connect me to my old self. Especially it is the movements of summer, when more of me meets the elements, while I am swimming, or feeling my bramble-scratched legs against hot rocks. Or when I am experiencing the lovely lassitude that fills me at the end of a long afternoon of sun and water as I stand slicing tomatoes for…
Anne Coleman was born in Toronto and grew up in Ontario and Quebec. She received a B.A. from McGill University and a M.A. in English from Bishop’s University. She taught for five years in Westmount, and then for thirty years at University College of the Cariboo, in Kamloops, British Columbia. She lives in Victoria, where she is a writer and novice sculptor, and a lover of the natural world.
