Toastmasters<\/a>, I told a story about the death of James Dean. I’m working my way through an Advanced Manual called “Storytelling” and the current project I had to tackle was “Bringing History to Life” with a story about a historical character.<\/p>\nIt’s a great story and I enjoyed telling it but I’m sorry, Jimmy. It’s just not going to fly for the YISF.<\/p>\n
As a writer\/performer\/producer, what I do, essentially, is tell stories. But storytelling as a form is very specific. That said, there are diverse styles within the form, which vary from the loose recounting of an event to the stylized performance of a memory or dream. Any form is alright by me for who does not like to tell or listen to a great story?<\/p>\n
So, as I am inclined to do when at a loss, I prayed for a story to tell this Saturday night. Not begged, just “put it out there”. And this morning, after TM, while I was breathing deeply in a spinal roll during yoga practice, the story came.<\/p>\n
It’s the story of why I moved to Alberta and why I left Alberta and the four months in between and, believe me, Light and Shadow fits the bill. I think I’m gonna call it “God Lives in Edmonton”.<\/p>\n
If you live in Whitehorse, come!<\/p>\n
Inspiring Message of the Day: Our lives are full of stories! Today, tell a story, listen to a story, learn from a story. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~ Maya Angelou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dearest Readers, The other day I posted on Facebook that I needed a “new story”. I did so because I’m telling this weekend for the Yukon International Storytelling Festival in celebration of World Storytelling Day. The theme is “Light and Shadow”. The stories that I have in my bag certainly fit with the theme but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,192,190,5,189,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-james-dean","category-light-and-shadow","category-motivation","category-storytelling","category-yukon-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}