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Stitches and Stories
One of my storytelling friends runs a zoom get-together for needlework and crafts on Wednesday mornings and I joined it today. I haven't really been doing any crafting for a while, so I needed to find a project to work on. I know I have a needlepoint act I have barely started, but I have no idea where it is. While I was looking, I found a counted cross-stitch kit that looked appealing. It took me a while to figure out where it came from, but I realized from the price sticker on it that I had bought it in Bangkok in 2008. It's going to take me a long time, but I did make a good start. And there was plenty of interesting conversation while everyone worked on their projects, so it was worth the couple of hours.
The Grapevine, a monthly storytelling series was this evening. The featured tellers were Nancy Donovan and Valerie Tutson. I'd heard the first story (about an encounter with a fortuneteller) Nancy told before, but I never mind when it as good a story as this one was. Her second story, about protectiveness towards her mother, which included a couple of incidents in Paris, was also good. Valerie's first story built off a folk tale, with a connection to Langston Hughes and led to apartheid-era South Africa. Her second story was an extremely powerful one regarding an enslaved couple escaping to freedom. Overall, it was well worth my time.
The Grapevine, a monthly storytelling series was this evening. The featured tellers were Nancy Donovan and Valerie Tutson. I'd heard the first story (about an encounter with a fortuneteller) Nancy told before, but I never mind when it as good a story as this one was. Her second story, about protectiveness towards her mother, which included a couple of incidents in Paris, was also good. Valerie's first story built off a folk tale, with a connection to Langston Hughes and led to apartheid-era South Africa. Her second story was an extremely powerful one regarding an enslaved couple escaping to freedom. Overall, it was well worth my time.