{"id":167,"date":"2013-11-18T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/?p=167"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:45:01","slug":"chelsea-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/2013\/11\/18\/chelsea-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Public Library Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, I had a chance to do a reading at the Chelsea Public Library, hosted by librarian Emily Meloche. \u00a0It was a beautiful venue, receiving the Best Small Library Award from the <em>Library Journal<\/em> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussion after the reading, I was reminded of the many ways people come to the &#8220;story&#8221; of autism: as parents, care providers, professionals, neighbors, and relatives. \u00a0From a number of parents, I heard briefly of their experiences. \u00a0Since the event, I found myself thinking of a past exchange, one that I tell of in the chapter entitled &#8220;Flood Plain&#8221; \u00a0in <em>An Archaeology of Yearning<\/em>. Not long after my son had been diagnosed, in the mid-1990s, I was waiting for him at his school. \u00a0Having just dropped off her own son, a woman sat beside me, and we began a conversation. \u00a0But, called to her meeting, she had to leave. \u00a0In the book, I write: &#8220;&#8230; I think back to the woman&#8217;s eyes and the healing pause of a hesitant recognition, a shared longing, a hunger for the retelling or a new telling of a story she well knew. \u00a0It was what we both needed, this amending, this wash of words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do think that the finding of language, the wrapping of words around the chaos of experience, can be healing. \u00a0We just can&#8217;t stop doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, I had a chance to do a reading at the Chelsea Public Library, hosted by librarian Emily Meloche. \u00a0It was a beautiful venue, receiving the Best Small Library Award from the Library Journal in 2008. During the discussion after the reading, I was reminded of the many ways people come to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}