Category Archives: Storytelling
Storytelling in Song: Kerrville Folk Music Festival
Power of Art: Tales for Little Rebels
I’ll be friends!! Anonymous Secret Twitter Application
If you ever want to read the best in human writing open the prayer request book of a hospital chapel and expose yourself to the full human spirit. Hospital prayer request books are filled with heart-wrenching pleadings and expressions of gratitude from all walks of life. You’ll never read anything similar. Souls desperate, broken, and thankful in ways we can never imagine write directly to God.
Read chapel prayer books in hospitals to jump in the deep end. Do not think you can imagine what they say, go to a hospital and read one. Fact is definitely stranger than Fiction.
Occasionally I want to bug a church’s confessional. Still, though, that would be a preselected group, and, they wouldn’t necessarily be any more honest or forthcoming than humanity in other venues. Thankfully the Anonymous Secret Twitter stream @SecretTweetis more efficient (…although there are dishonest posts with agendas, too). For me, most enlightening has been the number of people who are decent, and especially, are deeply truly in love with their soul-mates — contrary to the depiction of love by mainstream media.
“My 22nd birthday is next week. The only thing I wish for is a friend”
http://secrettweet.com/secret.php?id=57358
“Your smile and your presence is more powerful than you know.”
http://secrettweet.com/secret.php?id=55695
“Im agnostic but belong2church so I can sing in choir. It’s my only musical outlet n small town”
http://secrettweet.com/secret.php?id=53163
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits
The “seven dirty words” are seven English-language words that comedian George Carlin first listed in 1972 in his monologue Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. At the time, the words were considered highly inappropriate and unsuitable for broadcast on public airwaves in the United States. As such, they were avoided in scripted material, and bleep-censored in the rare cases in which they were used; broadcast standards differ throughout the world, then and now, although most of the words on Carlin’s original list remain taboo on American broadcast television as of 2010.
It is almost as hard to imagine Christ telling a parable to tax collectors and prostitutes as it is to imagine him doing so without curse words. They are a part of our social fabric as humans: the real world, the factual world, the world in which we and our children function. They are important to developing real world characters with which children can identify. There is something wrong with obsessing over many of the things ‘curse’ words refer to, but, it is also wrong to obsess over money, music, freedom, or just about anything.
Often words are segregated according to the people who use them: their class, race, religion, education, and so on — in themselves most have no inherently crude or disturbing meaning. They are used to divide and stigmatize, domesticate and rule. Meanwhile unspeakable evils are plotted with ‘acceptable’ words. To a certain extent over-reliance upon curse words for adding emphasis indicates a lack of imagination, but so does avoiding them altogether in order to white-wash a story or character.
Like a Wise Older Brother
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Astroanimation and Google Earth
Update: A Sundial that Shows Solstice “Explanation: What time is it? If the time and day are right, this sundial will tell you: SOLSTICE. Only then will the Sun be located just right for sunlight to stream through openings and spell out the term for the longest and shortest days of the year. And that happened last week and twice each year. The sundial was constructed by Jean Salins in 1980 and is situated at the Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris in Valbonne Sophia Antipolis of south-eastern France. On two other days of the year, watchers of this sundial might get to see it produce another word: EQUINOXE.” Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-Marc Mari