I'm so pleased to have Jon Odell, author of The Healing and The View from Delphi, as
guest this week. Jon shares an unpublished essay that he prepared
several years ago when he was working with fifth graders on "keeping
their stories alive." He told me,"Kids are the real story experts and
taught me more than I taught them. They caused me to re-remember and
revise my recollections about writing."
In life, you can either LIVE OUT OF your imagination, or you can LIVE OUT OF your history.
That's what adults do with much of our lives. We live out our history, doing the things that have worked once upon a time, obeying the rules, avoiding the things that didn't work and stubbornly refusing to imagine a new story for ourselves.
That's what adults do with much of our lives. We live out our history, doing the things that have worked once upon a time, obeying the rules, avoiding the things that didn't work and stubbornly refusing to imagine a new story for ourselves.