- Joyce Slater
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min read
Hello my friends,
School days, school days, dear old golden rule days! I haven’t told stories in a classroom in a long time. I wonder how many of you are telling in them these days. I would love to hear about your experiences in September and October.
I love Halloween and spooky stories and MO- TELL has a great event coming up on October 11 featuring both. See the flyer in the newsletter. I hope to see you there. It is a hybrid event. Come in person or drop by online.
Please keep telling your tales and stay in touch.
Joyce Slater
President of MO-TELL
“Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.”
― Patti Davis
- Joyce Slater
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min read
A very old lion lay ill in his cave. All of the animals came to pay their respects to their king except the fox. The wolf, sensing an opportunity, accused the fox in front of the lion:
“The fox has no respect for you or your rule. That is why he hasn’t even come to visit you.”
Just as the wolf was saying this, the fox arrived, and he overheard what the wolf said. Then the lion roared in rage at the fox, but the fox was able to speak in his own defense.
“And who, of all those who have gathered here, has rendered Your Majesty as much service as I have? For I have traveled far and wide asking physicians for a remedy for your illness, and I have found one.”
The lion demanded to know at once what cure he had found, and the fox said: “It is necessary for you to flay a wolf alive, and then take his skin and wrap it around you while it is still warm.”
The wolf was ordered to be taken immediately and flayed alive. As he was carried away, the fox turned to him with a smile and said, “You should have spoken well of
me to His Majesty rather than ill.”
- Joyce Slater
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min read
Hello my friends,
What a summer it has been! It heated up and stayed that way most of the time. Hot temps and hot lies brought us together this year in person for the first time in a long time. Seeing each other, sharing hugs and smiles and listening to stories in person rejuvenated our souls. How grateful I am for my friendships in storytelling. Thank you. Thank you for telling your stories, whether on the stage or at a table or in the hall at the Liars Contest. Thank you for making life wonderful again.
Our next in person events are Tellabration! and our annual membership meeting in January. Once again, River and Prairie Storyweavers will host our meeting at the annual Chicken Festival. (A big thank you to RAPS) This year it will be held in Nevada, MO. Watch for more information on that and Tellabration.
Please keep telling your tales and stay in touch.
Joyce Slater
President of MO-TELL
“The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.”
-- Jonathan Gottschall, author