Some of us are fortunate to have life long friends who are still a part of our lives thanks to social connectivity. One of mine is a brilliant English MA. Recently, she challenged me on Facebook: “What to call it when we have a senior moment and we play the guessing game for a name or place… It begins with a T and then we go through the T words.”
The alphabet, an easy memory tool. ©iStockphoto.com/marekuliasz
“The ability to tell a purposeful story is already inside you – use it or lose it #telltowin”
“‘Bring out your dead,’ they yelled. We dragged the carcass outside and watched them burn it with the other Christmas trees. Time to move on.”
An age-old philosophical question and beginning of a lot of groaner jokes asks, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” We true life storytellers may or may not view ourselves as philosophers as we reach into the depths of our experience and cry out – verbally or in written form – the experiences of our lives. But if no one is there to hear or read our stories, is it really storytelling?
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