Archives for 2015

Storytelling.

Valuable ways of communicating ideas include storytelling and dramatic performances.

Practice.

Try it.

You have, everyone has, stories.

Dry facts (or cement powder) may be needed to build a house. The story behind the decision, the adventures on the way to digging the foundations and your own feelings and observations are much more interesting to a bystander, than the proportions and dimensions.

We do want to know what you see, how you feel. Not your waist measurement and hat size!

The sun felt its way across the wooden desk, adding to the years of fading varnish.

High above, a glider silently cut through a cloud as if dividing up a pizza into equal portions.

Below the balcony, children stood with one leg on the ground and the other propped against the wall of the building.

At the local bar two strangers had got into a conversation about politics, jobs and travel.

The noise was bearable, the temperature supportive and the light encouraging.

Three people decided that they would decide the future. The future of their country and its children. Lucky for the country these three, the only ones to move from conversation to action, were wise and benevolent.

High wire acts.

Not immediately above the excited crowd.

The safety net is for the performers.

Rarely in this type of act are audience and performers interchangeable.

It’s easier to train to be entertained than to be the entertainer.

At different times we can be each of these.

Those who serve are also served.

Oh! So it’s like that is it?

They told you, again, that it could not be done.

But you can do it. You know you can. And you don’t need anybody to tell you that!

It’s all yours. This is that great opportunity. You are the driver.

You will succeed because you can, not for thanks or adulation, for knowing, and knowing when to act.

Well done getting to this great stage. The performance is all yours.

Reality, illusion and the friend who lives down the road.

Stay in contact with the friend.

Illusion comes into every view.

Reality can be hard to identify.

Friendship is good for you, enjoyable and good for the friend.