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My Angel - Christmas Fairy or Angel
1960,
My Angel - Christmas Fairy or Angel
My Angel - Christmas Fairy or Angel
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39840
Title
My Angel - Christmas Fairy or Angel
Description
The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.
My Angel
'She watches through tinsel and fairy lights. In the box. Out of the box. Years spent looking down on the feast: stolen mistletoe kisses, spiced wine, the game of charades, the snowstorm. And now older, my brothers and I, our silences; our knowing. We don't believe in angels any more and soon, she senses, we'll replace her forever with some bright star.'
By Sara Sheridan
Image: Christmas Angels or Fairies c.1960s
Date
1960
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Museum of Childhood
26 Children's Winters is a project that has challenged writers to respond creatively and emotionally to objects housed in the collection of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. The writers were selected from 26 and they were allocated different groups of objects that related to childhood experience during the winter time, in the past and in the present. The written responses were in the form of a sestude - 62 words exactly, 26 in reflection. Those sestudes are presented here alongside the Museum objects.
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