Tag: folktales

  • Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Uniquely Helps Us REMEMBER

    Heart-Lifting for Disheartening Times – Storytelling Uniquely Helps Us REMEMBER

    It’s all so overwhelming and it seems everyone is tired, discouraged, maybe angry or cynical or depressed, maybe confused or disheartened…just weary. Each day during this April A-Z Blogging Challenge I’ll offer a short musing on an aspect or two of the many ways the ancient-yet-very-contemporary experience of storytelling – both listening…

  • Oral Tradition – Plus Let Me Tell You Another Story…

    Oral Tradition – Plus Let Me Tell You Another Story…

    A little mouse told me?  Well, not exactly…but somebody did! [This is longer than my other A-Z posts…the musings plus the story…grab a cuppa maybe?!] By definition, personal stories (that is, first-person personal-experience narratives) are not transmitted to the teller through an oral tradition: they happened to the teller. So,…