Storytelling Starters ~ A day full of promise
Saturday, January 29th, 2022
Life is rarely even-paced. At least not in my experience. Even at this stage when it’s hugely less packed than it used to be with storytelling engagements, performances and commitments generally, it often seems more full than I’d like or expected.
But today the sun is shining with fluffy clouds and it’s the day my brilliant young cousin, Luke Walker, is having an Open Day at his workshop. Luke designs clothes, men’s clothes. Even as a student of fashion, he showed an innovative approach and a confidence in his own ideas that pointed him out as someone who would surely do quite brilliantly.
What a clever thing it was, for instance, that while still a student and doing work-experience at a well-known London fashion house, he casually left one of his own ‘inside-out’ jackets hanging on a peg. When the head of the house walked through, it naturally drew his attention. He stopped and fingered it. Whose is this? (more…)