“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.” ― Eudora Welty, One Writers Beginnings. If I ask you, tell me a story about the craziest of your relatives, does your mind go back to a time when you were listening to a grandparent or an uncle, sitting on the porch, perhaps, pausing for effect, and then letting loose with the punch line? ...and then Great Uncle Happy shot down that weather balloon.... There are whispers of she was the wild one.... There are descriptions - The farm stretched up and over the ridge, producing the biggest berries - even the children were expected to pick... Perhaps storytelling seems old-fashioned, but stories were made yesterday and will happen today - and tomorrow. And if history is any indicator, it is the stories that are passed down from century to century. Odysseus, Noah, Shakespeares kings, Pocahontas, Abe Lincoln, Sargent York, Anne Frank, Great Aunt Beth (oh what a character) - listen for a story today. Share a story today.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:45:56 +0000
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