Bridging with Storytelling

World Storytelling Day reminds us that storytelling is a human quality. Before the written word, stories were an important part of the human experience. With each turn of the historical wheel, stories of our past, stories from mythology, and children’s story could vanish if it weren’t for storytellers, and organizations like Storytelling Alberta. Tonight, I’ve listened to some of these stories as told to us from Ethiopia to Alberta to America through the bridge of present day Zoom technology. Wisdom, personal strength, forgiveness, humour and personal journeys were shared in the backdrop of personalities, cultures, beliefs and differences. It was an absolutely wonderful evening.                                                                    

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, 

we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.”

~ Sue Monk Kidd, author

p.s. - the first Storyteller was my sister Betty!