Volume II, Issue XXXIII
The Stories Around Us
The 'other' weekly news magazine features the 'great American novelist' on its cover this week. Of course, THYME goes where others fear to tread. THYME looks around and sees the stories that abound in our friends and family.
In Africa they pay their story tellers and probably never buy a novel. We in the Western world put a dear price on the work of a few and neglect the story unfolding right next to us.
My favorite books to read to the kids were stories like those of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote about her own frontier childhood... and Cheaper by the Dozen, the real life story of the Gilbreth family. The greatest stories are the real stories... and they reside in each of us.
You can go to church, work with, or live with with someone for years and never hear their story until you work beside them and listen. I'd say it is time to remedy that.
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