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The second medicine story, "The Joy Weed Journal" written from the real Safety Pin Cafe (our Quonset in the woods) is ready for 'a showing.' What is 'a showing' ?
"A 'showing' (my emblazonment) isn't a show," the program explained, "it's a
work-in-progress, presented to an audience as part of a show's
development. Theatre is an art form that needs an audience -- and
puppets really, really need an audience before they can come
fully to life. Your presence allows us to share the Hoggler's story as
it exists so far, to hone the show's material, and lets our puppet
characters start making their first steps out into the wider world."
- from Terri Windling's blog post about a puppetry program in-the-works
In much the same way described above for a puppetry show the medicine
stories that I write are works-in-progress and come to life as theater
when presented to an audience. The
summer presentation of
The Safety Pin Cafe is an example of that sort of magic and
homeopractical medicine that I create. I'm playing with the craft and the art of
putting down the story,
allowing the story and
asking for
an audience to play with me. Except for checking the grammar, the voice
of culture, and the flow of my stories, when they seem
right enough I let
the magic out. In that way, the story is alive, not constrained, and
very much open for evolution and becoming in harmony with all-that-is.
I'm discovering that rather than fitting these medicine stories in
formats that used to work for me (like facilitating workshops) the slow
and patient work of integrating truly whole magic is allowing different
venues. That allowing is the gift of magic: transformation. Here is one
of those different venues: "
A showing." Using the internet as my
stage with its spacious virtual corridors and fragrance-free
environments particularly sweet for my present heightened sensitivities,
this blog allows an audience to experience the story; and in return the
story and storyteller feel the exchange, stay open to change thanks to
your comments and feedback. It's always the beginning of the unknown
when I birth new stories/blogs. It's a risk, and an adventure and a
heroic journey.
Stay tuned with an invitation to be part of "a showing."
