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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:27:10 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Vanita Moore vsmteller@joink.com 812-448-8396 -----Original Message----- From: Vanita Moore [mailto:vsmteller@joink.com]=20 Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:24 PM To: 'Healingstory Discussion List' Subject: RE: HEALINGSTORY Digest - 11 Jun 2004 to 12 Jun 2004 = (#2004-103) Jerry, The merry month of May that I was to turn 50, my son, Thiel was to turn = 21. I was in Atlanta and he was in Denver. On the phone, I told him that = many people would consider this month a significant milestone for both of us. Without missing a beat he replied, "Yah, Mom, I'm becoming an adult and you're becoming a kid again." You know it's very true. I love my = "rekindled" child and now especially being a grandmother.=20 Some folks tell me I look young for 57. I'm proud to say, "This is what = 57 looks like."=20 Vanita Moore vsmteller@joink.com 812-448-8396 -----Original Message----- From: Healingstory Discussion List [mailto:HEALINGSTORY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU] On Behalf Of Automatic = digest processor Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 12:03 AM To: Recipients of HEALINGSTORY digests Subject: HEALINGSTORY Digest - 11 Jun 2004 to 12 Jun 2004 (#2004-103) There are 3 messages totalling 131 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Turning 50 (3) ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe = healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:30:46 EDT
In a message dated 6/11/2004 11:46:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jerryfalek@AOL.COM writes: > I have a close friend, female, who's turning 50 next week. She's = looking > back > and looking forward. She asked me for a story for her birthday. > > Well...? Dear Jerry, I think I know a story which might suit your needs. For me it is a = coming of age story, finding out what is important in life. The title is _Granny Gifts_ by Andrenna Belcher. It is found in _Best Loved Stories from the = National Storytelling Festival - Twentieth Anniversary_ I believe. I can double = check the source tomorrow for you but right now I am heading for some much needed sleep. warm wishes, Karen Karen Chace Professional Storyteller www.storybug.net LANES Board Member www.lanes.org Co-publisher www.workingsmarts.com "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others." Tyron Edwards ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:09:51 -0400
Jerry, and all, One of the most moving story snippets I've heard is a personal one I = heard at a dinner party just this past week: One of my neighbors, a student in = law school, is a single parent of twin 11-year-olds, plus an older boy with behavioral problems severe enough to require him being in a kind of = boarding school. At that dinner, she asked the group of those women present to celebrate = a milestone birthday with her this coming November. It never occured to me that her big event would be her big 5-0. So, tell = her about Debra Brown, and all those other women who believe 50 may be a milestone, but not a stumbling block. Best Wishes, Audrey Galex -----Original Message----- From: Healingstory Discussion List [mailto:HEALINGSTORY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of Jerry Falek Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:46 PM To: HEALINGSTORY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU Subject: Turning 50 Dear Friends, I have a close friend, female, who's turning 50 next week. She's looking back and looking forward. She asked me for a story for her birthday. Well...? Jerry ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe = healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:47:47 -0700
50 is not old. It is young! I like a story called The Old Jar which can be found in The Rainbow = People by Lawrence Yep. An old woman goes to market to buy a new jar to keep = her rice in. She manages to acquire an old cracked jar for nothing. It is = old and cracked but it still has value. As she rolls it home, she chants, "Keep the mice from my rice, mice from my rice." Various people want to aquire the jar to break and make stepping stones, to use as a stool in = the garden, etc. but the old woman feels the jar is like her--old but still with value and refuses. The people in her village laugh at her cracked jar. She puts her rice in the jar and it is only a little on the bottom but then she discovers that no matter how much rice she eats, the same amount is there in the morning. The villagers want to buy her jar or go into partnership with her to double the gold coins, etc. She shuts the door in their faces and says that magic is not to be laughed at. Age is also not to be laughed at. There is value left in us yet. Rose the story lady At 11:46 PM 6/11/2004 EDT, Jerry Falek wrote: >Dear Friends, > >I have a close friend, female, who's turning 50 next week. She's = looking back >and looking forward. She asked me for a story for her birthday. > >Well...? > >Jerry > >------------------------------- >To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe = healingstory >to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu >------------------------------- > ------------------------------ End of HEALINGSTORY Digest - 11 Jun 2004 to 12 Jun 2004 (#2004-103) ******************************************************************* ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||