This is a repost of an idea which grew in responding to one of the stories and I think it may be a worthy effort.
One of our regular posters on the Main has made the comment when one of our members passes that a Library has closed. That really brought home a realization of the value that each of us has and the knowledge each of us holds in our personal room in that library.
Just sitting down and writing things and how they are done, like in a text book, is BORING and many tricks and trades are forgotten. This is where stories come in and and are oh, so valuable. Stories are also one of the best ways to learn since the skill is used in context of living. We should remember that even Christ taught by telling stories, we call them Parables. Maybe for those who write, we might again follow the example of the Master.
Simple is good, we are not necessarily working towards winning a Nobel Prize for Literature. The story its self is a gem - remember that first paper bracelet your child gave you when they were tiny? Mine are more treasured than diamonds.
They may be as simple as "I remember when", stories or as complex a story as Bad, Kathy, Pac, Kelly and others construct. But each of us have, if not a whole room, at least a shelf or two which can be passed on. We need to do it.
Maybe I have an inflated value of this idea but I am going to post this also on Main, and invite others who don't venture over here to join us or to add their remembrances in written form to this or the On Your Own section of the board.
Old As Dirt has written several wonderful 'I remember' stories of when she was growing up during the depression and contain many gems and she has shelf after shelf of knowledge - almost her own room if not a building in the Library. Let's all ask her (and any others we may know of) to move them over here they get 'lost' too quickly on Main.
Any suggestions how to get people to contribute vignettes without thinking they have to have big stories. Just what you might tell sitting around with the family after a big meal, or around a campfire. Maybe if there is enough interest and no over criticism, we can start the TB2K version of The FoxFire Series. And if all works out maybe Dennis can start another sub room in Members Stories?
I am going to re-post the majority of this comment to its own thread for the one or two people who might not be following Pac's saga and again on Main for those who have not discovered the gold mine of prep info in Members Stories.
DM - who hears the tick tock of time running out.
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