I was talking to a girl.
As I listened — she told me a story, it was about her life.
And I told an other — a story, about her story, to another.
And then another, that came from the one story, became another story.
I was talking to a girl. As I listened — she told me a story, it was about her life. And I told another. And then she — another.
Isn’t it like that — you reach to someone, there’s the beginning of a telling; maybe it’s a hint or a whisper, a glimmer – then that story spreads in mind, and there’s another?
You hear a story and you carry that story — in a way, that becomes your story, but it makes you think of another, that’s a threading from that story — then another floats on the wind of the telling.
Stories are like flags in the wind — when there’s a breeze, the uplifting of the telling — more revelations are made — you can see more, and carry it home, in mind and memory. The flag becomes a banner, the story becomes the bridge to the structuring of how you carry it, that telling, that moment — the momentum of instance and re-telling.
Sharing happens.
Meaning deepens.
Tim | Pike Place Studios | Girvin Seattle
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Storytelling is, from the most ancient of times, the primary way we share. Before the written word, there were stories to be told. In many cultures (think of Hawaiian talk-story) it is still revered as an art form in itself. Talking, and listening, are qualities we don’t want to lose to the medium of 1′s and 0′s. Nice reminder, thank you.
I’ve never done well, trying to read, or tell the stories of 1′s and 0′s. Not sure if you’ve seen these overviews, as well?
http://www.girvin.com/blog/?tag=storytelling