{"id":301,"date":"2011-04-08T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-08-13T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T00:38:17","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2011\/writing\/inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without inspiration, there is no creativity. I have a folder with photos I’ve taken, ones\u00a0 I think might inspire me to paint.\u00a0 This one, I took awhile ago, reminds me of what I’m working on right now, writing my grandmother’s memoir.<\/p>\n

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This feather was dropped by a seagull in our garden, a present for me to consider.<\/p>\n

Stories that are left behind are like feathers.<\/p>\n

As I write about my grandmother and her family’s evacuation from her province of Volyhnia in the Ukraine (then a part of Russia in 1915) I am in awe of what she did and how she managed. Finding the details helps me appreciate the millions of people everywhere, regardless of color or religion, who have to move at a moment’s notice because of war. How do they do it? Where do they find the will? How are they inspired to keep going and keep their dreams alive?\u00a0 My grandmother had faith.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Without inspiration, there is no creativity. I have a folder with photos I’ve taken, ones\u00a0 I think might inspire me to paint.\u00a0 This one, I took awhile ago, reminds me… <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,36,27,5],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-inspiration","tag-memoir","tag-stories","tag-writing-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LuVB-4R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":765,"url":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2011\/writing\/the-many-paths-of-inspiration\/","url_meta":{"origin":301,"position":0},"title":"The Many Paths of Inspiration","author":"Diana Stevan","date":"29 \u041b\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u043f\u0430\u0434\u0430, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've written about inspiration before, but I gave it short shrift. 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