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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 07-03-2006 at 15:39:

Taste a Story

Taste a story!
Touch it!
Try it!

Tell a story!
Sell it!
Buy it!

Laugh a story!
Feel it!
Cry it!

Talk with it,
Walk with it.

And when you know
yours story really well,

Go fly with it!

-- Elaine Ward

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Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Posted by gatchgirl on 10-03-2006 at 21:49:

Never heard of that poet, guess I'm not up to date on things like that. I do like it though.

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Posted by imaqtz on 17-03-2006 at 14:10:

cute and inspirational.

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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 20-03-2006 at 16:36:

In case you didn't realize it, this one was posted for Buffy by way of thanks. Way back in the dawn of time, she suggested storytelling as a hobby. I was in the audience of the Guelph Guild of Storytellers all last summer, went to a workshop earlier this month (where I heard the poem) and the facilitator's insisting I go to the guild business / planning / practice meeting April 5, to get ready to tell in public April 15. Can't put it off another month 'cause the story I told at the workshop will fit the April theme quite nicely. Kipling's The SingSong of Old Man Kangaroo.

http://guelpharts.ca/storytellers/

Wish me luck!

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Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Posted by gatchgirl on 20-03-2006 at 21:57:

Best of luck to you! Big Grin

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Posted by imaqtz on 21-03-2006 at 13:04:

Ditto. Big Grin

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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 14-04-2006 at 14:37:

Well, I did it.

Doubt I'll ever make a career of it, but definitely a fun hobby. Good people in the group who want you to feel welcome and succeed.

Told three stories to son's grade 2 class on World StoryTelling Day. The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo, How the Whale Got His Throat, and The Dark Spot in the Forest. They loved them!

It was great. Twenty minutes and barely a peep from them. I was able to focus on any kid not paying attention and grab them back. The class disrupter started making a "train" of himself and a buddy during Kangaroo; "Looks like we've got a little train forming. There are trains in Australia, over a kilometre long -- that's twice around the schoolyard -- and three levels high." Well, that grabbed their attention again. There was a chart of fish on the wall, not certain why, but half-way through the rhyming list of fish the whale ate, I went to the chart and started at the top, then half-way through, "Well, you get the picture." Kids loved it!

Best part was later that morning when I was doing copying and cutting for the teacher. The "disrupter" was on his way to the boy's room and he came and thanked me for telling the stories!

Anyhoo, that afternoon I took the kids to the civic museum, to listen to members of the guild. While there, the one who had run the seminar came over and said they weren't doing the business meeting 1st Wed in April because they'd done so much preparing for that day (and the big concert that night). So, would I be able to tell the story I'd told at the workshp without going to the business meeting first.

Pressure! But fun.

So, this Wednesday I told Kangaroo to a bunch of adults. Adults are actually a harder audience to guage. If they're bored, they sit there, looking mostly asleep. If they're paying attention, they sit there, eyes half-closed, looking mostly asleep. The refrigerator from hell didn't help; every five minutes it would shake the building and start up, run noisily for a bit, then jump a bit and shut off, for less than half a story. Made harder by the absence of the sound system. Then again, the only times I've used a mic I've not adapted well to it, so maybe it was just as well. Not as if my normal voice can't fill a room!

Most of them laughed at all the right places, though, so they must have heard it all right.

So, anyone got a story I can tell next month? They're doing colours this year, and May's colour is white. Maybe Kipling's The First Letter.

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Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Posted by gatchgirl on 14-04-2006 at 16:05:

I'll have to think of any suggestions and post them later but I want to say congrats on your day of reading to both adults and kids!

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Posted by Madilayn on 16-06-2006 at 10:24:

Congratulations, Cricket! Storytelling is definately an art.

Have you ever read "The Story Girl" by LM Montgomery? Well worth reading if you are into storytelling.

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Posted by Madilayn on 16-06-2006 at 10:27:

Just another post, Cricket - how about Kipling's
"The Cat Who Walks By Himself" - it's a favorite of mine and when I was a Cub Scout leader, my boys all loved it as well.

In fact, it was a tradition for me to tell it as the Friday Night Story on our camps.

If you like, I can see if I can find some of my collection of Australian Aborignal Dreamtime stories as well - it would be definately something different and educational as well.

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