Sweet To The Ear
Alex, Chi Chi, Christine, Pascaline, Fabian, Kizito, Queen, Mohiedin, George, Festo, Wadhaika, Jackson, Rebecca, Ezekiel, Purity, Dave, and I have been talking about STORYTELLING. Each of these mostly twenty-somethings are drawn in powerful ways to telling stories with words, in sound, or in pictures … and we’ve offered a workshop this week to help them gather and create stories that are, in one student’s words, “sweet to the ear.”
They’re working in the field all day today … conducting interviews, shooting pictures, gathering tape. Many of them are doing this sort of craft for the first time. Some were quite nervous.
I sit now at the church where we’re holding the workshop, waiting for questions or calls that could come in from the field. The room, once full of conversation and ideas and anxiety and questions, is now still and silent. That means that these young people, pulled so powerfully to story, are out there … FINDING stories.
And that is sweet to my ears.
very cool!