In any given week, tellers from the Jonesborough Storytellers Guild present one hour of stories (which usually vary widely from each other in terms of content and meaning---unlike a SLAM, the tellers don't work with a theme in mind). Yet each teller used pieces of previous stories in their tellings---and it almost seemed planned/orchestrated (although I knew it was not).
This is essentially what we were doing in class the last two days. On Monday, I struggled to understand when I should "take my turn." Truthfully, I was looking for subject matter similar to my story---the connector being a word, action or character. What I learned in class (and it was reinforced at the guild performances tonight) is that the connector may be the meaning and values inherent in the previous teller's story.
Joy
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