Sleighing to Sharing the Fire

The  weather seems to think we need to break the record for all time low temps in the Northeast! That just means we need to have more people SHARING THE FIRE!  March 18-20, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Warwick, Rhode Island storytellers from around the Northeast will gather and share in warm stories, warm hearts, healing, learning and  friendships. 

    You may have to hire the sleigh above to get there this year with old man winter dumping storm after storm on us.   Then you would surely have a story to share on the adventure of  coming to
Sharing the Fire Northeast Storytelling Conference.
 If you need to contact the sleigh please do contact my friends Terry and Elaine Joseph at their farm  http://www.cedarknoll.net/  860377-8110.  They do warm weather events too like my daughters wedding a few years ago! Now that was a fairy tale like day!

 Come in out of the cold and take a workshop with us!  How about catching
"The Hero's Journey as Healing Story"
with storyteller Lani Peterson.  Quoting the brochure on the conference: "From C.G. Jung to Joseph Campbell to Disney, the mythic structure of the hero's journey has been explored and utilized from every angle, but its power as a framework for clients, patients, parishioners,and storytellers to explore their own healing stories holds infinite possibilities. Bring your own life experiences and understand it by working with it from the inside out."  For more info on Lani check her website at: http://www.lanipeterson.com/

Friday night the Sharing the Fire Concert 7-9 p.m. is open to the public tickets are just$10.00 and it is open to the public grab a friend and come. You can hear tellers,Lee Ellen Marvin, Doug Lipman & Elisa Pearmain along with  3 winners from Story Slams. ( that could include a wild tale of police and animals and kids and how not to get to a community service event, told by yours truly!)

  Find out more about the conference at http://www.lanes.org/

These tellers are honing skills to wow! you with at the Friday night performance see what they are all about at:
  Lee-Ellen Marvin      http://www.http//26variations.com
      Doug Lipman           http://www.storydynamics.com/
      Elisa Pearmain          http://www.wisdomtales.com/

Which hand should I hold the baton in? Be Passionate

Which hand should I hold the baton in?

The video is a definition in motion of passion.

Click and watch the video.

There is no doubt that this young man is passionate about music.

It is infectious. When we are passionate other people pay attention and try to figure out why and what makes that passion. Being passionate is a little like being contagious, who knows who will catch it!

A number of years ago I was invited to a party and saw storyteller Tom Lee perform Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, he had myself, my son and everyone else drawn into the story. I was busy watching him tell, but also the reaction, it was his realism and passion for telling that sucked the kids from their seats nearly. www.tomleestoryteller.com

It was the night I realized I wanted to be a storyteller and make this journey. I've been watching for that passion every where I go. I am following the passionate to improve my storytelling. www.storytellertimlowry.com www.billharley.com www.lanipeterson.com

To show me better ways to do things. I am inspired by their talents and ideas. I draw courage from their bold new ventures. www.massmouth.com I want to have so much fun telling stories, building my business, learning all about the web, www.storybug.net creating new written pieces, so very passionate about my work that the baton flies from my hand and I collapse in a fit of whole hearted laughter!

Won't you join me?