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48 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | SEPTEMBER 2021 Four Seasons Singers We are sorry to announce this, but the Four Seasons Choir is canceled for the rest of 2021. Looking ahead, if you would like to join the Singers, would like to be included in my email list, or if you have questions about the Four Seasons Singers, call (951) 797-3466 or email me at bawasco@dc.rr.com. ~ Barbara Wasco Classical Music Club We are classical music lovers with an interest in sharing our love, knowledge, and interest in classical music. We meet on the second Thursday of each month at 7 pm in The Lodge Theater. We listen to and watch musical selections on the big screen. Each month we focus on a particular work or several selections of one composer. We also discuss current musical performances in the area. We welcome new members. Contact Steve Benoff at steve.benoff@verizon.net or (310) 413-4896. ~ Steve Benoff We hope to have a location approved soon and are working on our budget to make it a great addition to our community. Although still in progress, a steering committee is now meeting regularly and we welcome Martha Tureen as the president. Martha is a master gardener for Riverside County and we have several other master gardeners who have joined the group. If you are interested and have not yet signed up, please email Pat Wayne at pwayne1@outlook.com. ~ Pat Wayne Community Garden Club Writers' Club 10 Great Books on Writing and Memoir: 1. Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. Wm. Zinsser, Ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1998. "Memoir is how we try to make sense of who we are, who we once were, and what values and heritage shaped us." 2. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. Wm. Zinsser, Author, Harper Collins, 1998. (Sixth Ed.) "Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition." 3. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Julia Cameron, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. "Through self-nurturance we nurture our inner connection to the Great Creator." 4. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anne Lamott, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1994. "One of the things that happens when you give yourself permission to start writing is that you start thinking like a writer. You start seeing everything as material." 5. Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays, and Life Into Literature. Bill Roorbach, Story Press, 1998. "In dialogue, your characters, your people, are speaking for themselves, and if your characters are speaking, the reader can look over your writerly shoulder, have the feeling he's seeing past you to the person herself." 6. Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past. Wm. Zinsser, Marlowe and Company, 2004. "Quality was my father's passion. I never felt that he thought of his business as a means of making money, but as an art, to be practiced with only the best materials." 7. Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Natalie Goldberg. Free Press, 2007. "…there are no excuses not to write… Learn to be comfortable with simple tools." 8. The Art of Memoir. Mary Karr, Harper Collins, 2015. "Unless you confess your own emotional stakes in a project, why should a reader have any." 9. Your Life As Story: Discovering the "New Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature. Tristine Ranier, Tarcher/Putnam, 1998. "If you could see your life's shape, you would find its features to be, like those on your face, universally human, yet completely unique." 10. Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir. Beth Kephart, AVERY, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2013. "…about the making of memoir, and its consequences." For more information, please email mlarchibald@mac.com. ~ Mary Lynn Archibald