Storytelling Starters ~ Casting an eye
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Do you get times when your mind is zooming about, travelling at the speed of light from one remembered experience to another, let alone between remembered stories, no doubt trying to make sense of things? As I write, my mind is doing just that. It makes for quite an adventure. But underneath, there are an awful lot of feelings trying to settle themselves into some kind of equilibrium. Here’ a sample of where my thoughts have been.
For instance – and I know I’ve told the story in this blog in the past – my mind briefly touched down on that North American Indian story – I know I’ve told it here before – in which there’s a hero who has survived and conquered all kinds of terrifying situations. Zombies. The underworld. Flames. And there he is, recounting his adventures around the camp fire, when he feels something strange on this arm. He looks down – it’s a spider – and he nearly jumps out of his skin. He can’t stand spiders.
Then again, there’s something that happened for real yesterday. My husband was working at his computer (it’s a fairly new one with a touch screen). Suddenly, as he reported to me later, the cursor on the screen appeared to have gone puzzoowee. It was jumping about all over the place. He couldn’t think why – not until he saw that there was an incredibly tiny spider walking across the screen.
It just goes to show how sensitive a touch-screen can be. But for me the story made sense because that’s just how my mind has been behaving since the cataract operation on my left eye on Wednesday. (more…)