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Mnemonic: A Book of Trees – Post 3 of 5

Andrea Cordonier

Arts & Culture, Books, Family & Friends, Geography, History & Heritage, Museums, Galleries & Archives

I grew up in a loving family but I wasn’t like them in so many ways. Our family culture centred on hockey, baseball, camping trips in summer. I couldn’t even begin to describe to them how the world shimmered for me, how I heard voices in the rustling of leaves, that I cried when I… Read more
Mnemonic: A Book of Trees – Post 1 of 5

Andrea Cordonier

Arts & Culture, Books, Geography, History & Heritage

I also discovered that this was one possible way to write a memoir in which I could get everything in. Not just the personal details but the things that drew me to investigate, to research, to pair with my own sense of the world. Bits of song, notes about botany, musings about family history, moments… Read more