Day 147: The Art of Storytelling

25/1/10

Today, as I sat at my work station making clay bird beads, I began to study the process of how the clay is smoothed. It's surprisingly delicate; too much water on your fingers and the clay falls apart, too little and the design smudges. That theme stuck with me in Genesis class today when we looked at the art of story telling and how details and embellishments can both compliment and hurt. In the movie we watched, "Smoke Signals", Thomas is asked if he wants to here the true versions of a life story or the lies. He replies "I'd like both". I think most people want both as well. Most completely true stories are slightly dull, but a completely fictional story holds no meaning. Even fiction novels, while in unreal circumstances, hold universal morals and values in their pages that communicate with the reader. This balance of truth and lies, too much and too little, the perspective of now and hindsight, all hit me today as I was sitting down to write this blog. The truth of this whole blogging thing is that I could make up complete bull, and it would be no different than the exact word for word truth because it's MY story. That said, I DID NOT make these things up... The point being that with every telling of a story, there is always balance because the story has to be told from the perspective of the person telling it. Obvious, I know, but still enlightening. It makes me happy to know that opinions change over time, and thus, my story changes over time. Reading these blog entries over is a little trippy to be honest. It's a bit like reading a diary you wrote a decade ago and remembering yourself when you wrote it. That was today's experience. A wonderful day of thinking, friends, sleep, laughing, and MORE DISNEY MOVIES!!!!!!!!!

Endless Love,
Rachel