Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

It's been a wonderful week on the site for life writing and I struggled to choose the Picks for this week. 

Among others, Jolono's beautiful 'Dad was Old School' (https://www.abctales.com/story/jolono/dad-was-old-school) and Elsie Katz's uncompromising 'Memories of Working In A Hostel...' (https://www.abctales.com/story/elsie-katz/2002-05-my-memories-working-ho...) will stay in my mind for a long time.  

In the end though, Story of the Week goes to Parson Thru's 'You, Me and Woody Guthrie'.  It's wise, beautifully written, and unsentimentally optimistic: 

https://www.abctales.com/story/parson-thru/you-me-and-woody-guthrie

Poem of the Week is another memoir - Philip Sidney's 'Southend 1976', with imagery so strong you can feel the sunburn and taste the sea:

https://www.abctales.com/story/philip-sidney/southend-1976

Please do read all of them, if you haven't already.  They are all wonderful pieces of work.

Thanks to Jolono too for providing the inspiration for this week's Inspiration Point:  https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip