In preparing for a tree story-walk, I stumbled across a wonderful resource for environmentally-inclined storytellers (and people who simply love trees): http://www.spiritoftrees.org. This site lists folktales, and links to folktales, concerning various species of tree. Of particular interest to readers of this blog, the full text of Margaret Read MacDonald‘s telling of Mikku and theContinue reading “Mikku and the Trees at Tree Spirit”
Tag Archives: Children
Storylistening Podcast Added: Michael Williams Speaks about Healing Stories and the Middle East
In an earlier post, I wrote about Starhawk’s plea for the telling of new stories in and about the Middle East. Today, I am pleased to be able to offer a podcast concerning a project that is being undertaken in Israel and Palestine to bring about the end of the old story and the beginningContinue reading “Storylistening Podcast Added: Michael Williams Speaks about Healing Stories and the Middle East”
Being Inspired by Contemporary Oral Storytelling at Newbattle Abbey College
Two weeks after I moved to Edinburgh last September, I found myself down at Newbattle Abbey College, attending the first weekend of their Contemporary Oral Storytelling professional development programme. I signed up because I wanted to hone my storytelling skills and because I thought it would be a great way to find out how storytellingContinue reading “Being Inspired by Contemporary Oral Storytelling at Newbattle Abbey College”
Restorying the Earth 