The Storyteller’s Rule

[Manuel Tavares]

The Storyteller’s Rule

By Catherine Viel

Posted January 11, 2022

 

My grandpa I loved very much. Time was soothing then.

We didn’t really need time when days and nights were safe.

And with him they were. A healer and respected kiva elder…

And a storyteller he was…

Our history is more than here. We know more than realize.

We realize what we don’t know. Or want to know. Truths.

Stalk us, just like they found. A boy. More than fifty years ago.

~Simon J. Ortiz, Time as Memory as Story

I’m so lucky to have my limitations.

Figuring out why they’re there and how to get rid of them—or live with them—can fully occupy my entire being.

In spiritual or personal growth terms, I reckon these limitations would be labeled “challenges.” I mostly view them as annoyances, if they’re minor, or epic problems worthy of depiction in a Wagnerian opera if they greatly impact my life.

My minor inconvenience might be viewed as an enormous tragedy to someone a great deal wealthier and more privileged than I am.

And it’s possible that my gigantic problems would be par for the course to someone living in poverty, with limited access to nourishing food or healthcare. (Limited access to conventional medicine is quite possibly an advantage these days, but that’s another story.)

It seems to come down to circumstance and perspective.... https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-storytellers-rule.html