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By
Dr. Wilson Triviño
Atlanta, Georgia –
March 25, 2008- Famed writer, humanitarian,
and activist, Alice Walker is walking off
the writing stage.
After fifty years of a successful
career as a writer with over 23 books and
countless writings, Walker surprised the audience with this
announcement.
Her departure from the writing world
is in conjunction with the celebration of
the new home of her personal papers archives
at Emory University in
Atlanta,
Georgia.
She hails from
Eatonton, Georgia and studied at Spellman College,
she comes from a rich southern family
heritage.
Walker
entered the room with arms cross sharing the
inner peace with her audience, dressed in
peach colors symbolizing the blooming peach
trees of her native Georgia.
She spent an evening reading the last
pages of her countless books while sharing
sage insight. She welcomed the audience to
close their eyes for the best impact of her
public readings and forgave those who
transition into the dream world. “Sleep is
the poor man’s nirvana”, expressed
Walker.
In the
Australia
aborigine’s tradition, where nothing belongs
to anyone and you leave the world the way it
was when you arrived, she has decided it was
time to let go of all her writings,
memorabilia, and correspondence.
Her relationship with Georgia is one
with nature and is the ideal place to house
her work.
These documents will be open to the
public and scholars in spring 2009.
What is she to do now?
Walker
is set to travel the world in pursuit of
inner discovery in spiritual rich lands
discovering adventures on this new path.
As in the Korean tradition of new
birth at 60, she is entering a cycle of a
new beginning.
Her departing words were, “we are the
ones we have been waiting for.”
We will miss her
writings but her spirit is present in a
lifetime body of written work.
Political Scientist Dr. Wilson
Triviño resides in Marietta,
Georgia and is a
speaker and writer for ABC Vision. A consulting
firm that focuses on leadership, change, and innovation. He may be
reached at abcvision@gmail.com
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