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“There’s stories and then there’s stories. …The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you’ve heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on and the giving only makes you feel better.”
Charles De Lint
Welcome to Attic Whisper.
In the beginning, there were stories. Stories helped us understand the world we live in and our place within it. From creation stories and folk tales to faerie tales and urban legends, storytelling is at once a teaching tool, guide, entertainment, and warning.
As we wrap ourselves in these stories, we change our own. Stories can save us, inspire us, change our path, or haunt us. Through it all, with every step and decision, we write our own story. Not only that, but as we are busy creating it, we become part of other’s stories; a part we have no control over. You are that one song that changed a person’s night, the smile that distracted dark ruminations, or the hand that took the last donut. Our mere presence changes this tapestry of stories in ways unforeseen, carrying the narrative ever forward. Before, throughout, and after our lives, we are stories. May our stories be told with loving voices and raised glasses.
In their transformative power, stories are medicine. Comfort medicine, like chamomile tea; distracting us and filling us with warmth. Beauty medicine, like music and dance, inspiring us and fueling our creative urge.. And then there is the medicine that lances the wound, purges the toxins. Unpleasant, needful medicine that drops us deep into shadow work, until we become feral in our power and emerge ready to create.
I, dear listener, am Djuna Blackthorne, the jackdaw in this attic, collecting stories and storytellers to share with you. From insights in the writing of golden age mysteries to historical fallacies, or sparkling moments in the creation of musical magic. Ghost stories or strange hauntings? The evolution of words? What kind of medicine do you need today? Come browse my collection of yarns, I hope you find what you need.
The excerpt read at the start of the Episode is from Dreams Underfoot, by Charles de Lint. This book saved my life. You can find Charles de Lint at CharlesdeLint.com
“Juan Sánchez – Luz de Luna” is under an Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license
Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/h7fSbXEadzI
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