my latest storytelling adventure
My friend Juliene likes to say "we're hot-wired for story." I agree. It's one of the things that make us human. We find evidence for this in the very earliest cave paintings...daring tales and the handprints of those telling the story.
We choose our stories for many reasons...to inform and educate, to delight, to feel less alone.
We witness stories too...an argument at the grocery store, a look between lovers. Sometimes we choose to step into the stories going on around us and become part of them.
We think about stories, and allow them to change our perspectives, increase our understanding of an event, a person, a long-held belief.
We may even engage in the creative act of storytelling ourselves...in a heartfelt letter to a friend, a journal entry, a story to a child at bedtime.
And we support each other in our storytelling by sharing a treasured poem, novel, a performance.
My friend Juilene and I have been supporting each other over our 30 years of hot-wired for story friendship.. I hope you have a friend like mine.
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| Eileen & Juilene |
As always, happy reading, friends!
Having friends who like to write and to support is great. Other writers make great friends because they understand
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