Wit & Wisdom

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I want to use this page to

• Share my favourite books and websites with parents, teachers, and anyone looking for a tale
• Share video examples of me telling stories, or videos of students I’ve worked with telling stories
• Introduce you to some of my favourite tellers who I’ve had the pleasure of working with

Morbi Nisl Eros

Lorem Ipsum Dolor

Morbi Nisl

In Eget Sapien

Vivamus Vel Sapien

Morbi Nisl Eros

Lorem Ipsum Dolor

Tellers I’ve told beside

Jeeva Raghunath

Heather Forest

Eth-No-Tec

Margaret Read MacDonald

Aaron Shepard

Fran Stallings

Linda Fang

Each of us has a story to tell.  But the true artist is one who lives his life as though it were a story, and sees his life as a narrative.

… look at the infinite story-telling potential in every event. Had a quarrel with your spouse? Turn it, Walter Mitty-style, into a comic event. Humorist James Thurber’s character turned his mundane life into a heroic epic in his imagination.

Jilted in love? Had a fight with your daughter? Distil the emotion from that exhausting encounter, turn it into a work of art – if you are a writer, write a couple of lines,… a talker, a little anecdote to share with someone.

Look at events in your life not as though they are random, but as though they are meant and meaningful. Seek order and pattern, create harmony, in things that happen.

Act in a way that will make for harmony. End relationships with a sense of closure.  That urge to make a story out of one’s life is instinctual for many. Think of how you met the love of your life: surely you have turned it into a story you tell each other?

Gone through a painful relationship and … the wound is still gaping? Time alone will not heal it. Only a sense of closure will do it. … Do something ritualistic, symbolic of an ending.

The ancient theorists had it right, you see. We need catharsis, to be purged of pity and terror.

And few thing do this as well as stories. This is the reason fairy tales, myths and parables are so powerful. Every child knows the terror of some bedtime stories. Every religious leader couches profound truths in simple stories.

Stories. Life is all about them. Imagine, a new year, 1999, a blank canvas, a pristine book, in which to paint, write or imagine all sorts of stories.

Happy story-telling.