67 at 8am, but dropping a little as the day goes on. The rain has stopped for the moment, and if it stays dry today we might get some mulch spread.
I decided to start naming and numbering my posts through this pandemic. Not because of fear, but to save this time period in its own special category. We may want to look back on these days on the future, and realize how well we coped and moved ahead.
This is on today's agenda:
Chocolate chip cookies! I haven't baked any cookies for a month or so, and we miss our elevenses with cookies.
Today is World Storytelling Day, did you know? It seems like this is more important this year than it has ever been before as we all search for ways to stay connected. Storytelling friends have been searching for ways to still work--many depend on storytelling as their main income, and suddenly contracts are being canceled and they are without work for the foreseeable future. Some have planned online events for this World Storytelling Day, so if you want something different and interesting to do this evening, please have a look and listen! Here are links to 2 events I know about.
World Storytelling Day: Artists Standing Strong Together.
TGIF Storytelling Festival will become a weekly event. First one is this evening!
World Storytelling Day 2020: Voyages
I will continue to post links to the work of friends throughout this isolation time, to support them and to give you, my blog friends, something fun and perhaps helpful to participate in as we all find out way through these next weeks. I heard of the death of one storyteller due to the virus, a man in Texas who portrays Santa every year. I did not know him, but am sorry for his many friends and his family.
So onward we go, dear ones. May we all continue to be well and strong.
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Oh no, who is the teller? so very sad indeed. Batsy in Idaho
ReplyDeleteHis name was Pat James, Batsy. He was from Arlington, TX. there are quite a few news articles about his death. I am so sorry for his family.
ReplyDeleteTo tie in with your post, I was just listening to our Canadian news, and it brought tears to my eyes when a video of "Santa" came on letting children know that he was doing fine, as children were concerned that he was in the at risk group. -Jenn
ReplyDeletethat hurts my heart, Jenn. Poor little ones, who knows what is most worrying for them.
DeleteI absolutely love the quote on your masthead. I'm stealing it! "Storytellers ought not to be too tame. They ought to be wild creatures who function adequately in society. They are best in disguise. If they lose all their wildness, they cannot give us the truest joys."- Ben Okri
ReplyDeleteSteal away! I like it very much.
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