I spent this past weekend in Jonesborough, Tennessee at the National Storytelling Festival. I travelled with some of my friends from 12Stone Church to take in the wisdom of expert storytelling from professionals. Did you know there are such a thing as professional storytellers? There are. And they are wonderful.
Storytelling is a lost art, especially among my generation, and to sit and soak in a good story, visualizing it as a teller recites his or her descriptive words, is mesmerizing. As founder of the festival Jimmy Neil Smith put it, “As millions of story lovers all over the world know, there is no substitute for the power, simplicity, and basic truth of a well-told story.”
I am inspired to begin to piece together some of my stories of my own.
While we were there, we stayed in this fabulous lake house on Lake Boone. We cooked dinner Saturday night and I made roast chicken with carrots. Always a big hit. My friend Amanda has a great recipe for the perfect roasted chicken. Read it here and maybe it’ll inspire her to get back in the blog world. She’s such a fabulous writer.
October 5, 2010 at 2:42 pm
I have a friend who goes to all those kinds of storytelling events. I even remember her going to clown school when I was growing up. She’s such an awesome woman.
And the roast chicken? Mmm. Definitely one of my favorite comforts and it always reminds me of my mom.