Op-Ed: My father insisted he wasn't a writer. But when I read him on the page I can still hear him speak (via latimesopinion)
My father Larry Aubry, who died this month at 86, was many things in his life — a probation officer, human relations consultant, education consultant, racial justice activist. He was also a columnist. He wrote weekly for the Los Angeles Sentinel for 33 years, logging an incredible 1,700-plus columns. Yet he insisted he was not a writer. That distinction belonged to me, he said.
Despite his disavowal of being a writer, he understood writing was an art. I think he liked the arduousness of the process. He liked trying to get it right, to channel into few words the many facts, opinions and passions he harbored in any given week. I would say that he saw journalism as poetry, as I did — the art of compressing enormous, disparate things into a coherent whole, in your own voice, in 800 words.
As a writer my father was focused, and meticulous, which sometimes made me feel messy and undone. In my own esoteric musings about the struggle, I often feel myself veering too close to the despair or fatigue that was an anathema to him.
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