Stepping Stones on my Path

[angersson]

My brain works in this way...

I will hear or read a line or a paragraph or a discussion and file it away because I know that I will need it later.  My brain, it knows what I will need, and it keeps just that.

Today I would like to share some of the bits my brain latched on to that have been important to my personal path.

Comments

[winterlion]

Yddrasil is a tree of stories that makes up who we are - all the stories that have been, right back to the roots of the beginning, and all the branches of what-will be....

yes - oh very much yes.

"The secret is waiting and listening" - King Boomie (more or less, although that probably is the quote)

The trick people have taught themselves in the last hundred years is that fiction is different from nonfiction. They're both stories - and they both reveal truths.

just commenting on one piece. I do rather think you're right.

[angersson]

That bit about Yggdrasil, that is beautiful. Thank you.

[winterlion]

Very welcome.

I didn't come up with it - it's from the great body of Lore. Either it's in the Elder Eddas or in the pre-Edda skaldic poetry - not sure which. I'm still looking.
It was a great point of enlightenment for me and it's been the heart of my belief for a while now.

Have you encountered Jim Henson's Storyteller?

[angersson]

Well, I'm the naughty heathen for not knowing that.

I remember seeing a bit of The Storyteller when it came out. I can't remember why I didn't see more of it. Possibly the time it was on when it aired. I've been meaning to get hold of it and see more.

I'm a great fan of Henson's work in general.