Collecting stories.
Humans, like crows, are inclined to collect things. Stamps, bottles, butterflies, bugs. Stories. We have our personal stories, of course, Aunt Millie finding love or Uncle Bill getting drunk every Christmas. The time I fell into my mother's washbucket.
What I mean is published stories, those we collect in book form, those we take from the shelf when we ache for wholeness. We collect stories because we love them. We remember the adrenaline rush we received when we first read them. We collect stories because we are human, because we are like the crows. We decorate our nests with stories. We cock our heads, like crows, admiring our obsession. We know that inside the story, all is well.
Given the truth of this, I wonder how anybody talks about a story without her heart bursting from joy.
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2 comments:
Oh, how lovely! I collect a lot of things, but I'd never thought of all the books on the shelves and stacked on the floor as my collection of stories. So glad you pointed it out. They are a comfort, aren't they? Teagrapple
Bingo! Could bits of this find itself in a story? If so, I'd like to read it.
Gretchen
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