“If You Tell Me Yours I’ll Tell You Mine”
That’s what Joe said to me at the Blue Ridge Story Space that I was covering in January for the local paper. I wasn’t prepared to tell a story, but I had a good one to share that I made fit the month’s theme of “beginnings.” In the middle of my mystical story of my father shaking holy water bottles from beyond the grave, the way Mathew Mcconaughey’s Interstellar character made a watch fall off a dresser from an alternate dimension, I said to the crowd “it was the beginning of me not being the biggest skeptic in my family.”
Joe told his story of his father dying unexpectedly in our home in the mountains that reminded his father of the mountains where he grew up in Germany. His passing was a trauma and a gift that spurred Joe to begin some new practices to improve his mental and physical health.
The January stories are posted on the Blue Ridge Story Space Youtube page. My story starts at 54.12 minutes and can also be read HERE. Joe goes right after me. Held on the first Saturday of each month at the June Bug Center from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., February’s Story Space theme is “secrets.”
January 29th, 2019 10:52 am
Great stories! They need to be told in this life and the life that has passed. I remember oh so well.
January 29th, 2019 11:33 am
I did okay for the most part in remembering how it went in the spur of the moment. We only had 5 -7 minutes and a shaker was shook at those times. So what you didn’t hear was the shaking and I had to tie it up fast. I should have said we were looking for dad’s military records to get support from Ma from VA and that John was sober when I saw him.
January 31st, 2019 5:40 pm
Oral storytelling, I love it. This, I could get into.