Are You Writing Your Song?
by Emme Gannon @GannonEmme I�m a big fan of southern storyteller Rick Bragg. His narrative style of writing brings notoriety to the common man�the living and the dead and the trembling membrane in between. He takes us back to a day when computers and cell phones didn�t rule the day and the heart of each small town was the church, where God and country were worshipped and honored, in that order. Reading Rick transports me to my grandmother�s front porch swing, where I sipped sweet tea, and ancestors came to life as real as if we were reunited at the rapture. I become a kid again, staying up late in summer so I can catch flickering fireflies in the old mason jar kept under the back porch, just waiting for the thrill of the hunt. Then the release, when the sky explodes with the twinkling light of a handful of fireflies escaping into the night. Bragg�s writing has a beat that is hauntingly beautiful�a beat so rhythmic that something inside of me wants to continue the song. But, Rick�s...